Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9781447283904
- Titel
- A Whole Life
- Författare
- Seethaler, Robert
- Förlag
- Picador
- Utgivningsår
- 2015
- Omfång
- 148 sidor
- Mått
- 0 x 220 mm
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- "Set in the mid-twentieth century and told with beauty and tenderness,[this] is a story of man's relationship with an ancient landscape, of the value of solitude, of the arrival of the modern world, and above all, of the moments, great and small, that make us who we are. Andreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a young boy taken in by a farming family. He is a man of very few words and so, when he falls in love with Marie, he doesn't ask for her hand in marriage, but instead has some of his friends light her name at dusk across the mountain. When Marie dies in an avalanche, pregnant with their first child, Andreas' heart is broken. He leaves his valley just once more, to fight in WWII - where he is taken prisoner in the Caucasus - and returns to find that modernity has reached his remote haven..."--Publisher's description.
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