A whole life / Robert Seethaler ; translated by Charlotte Collins.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: London : Picador, 2015.Description: 160 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781447283904 (pbk.) :
- Ganzes leben. English
- 833.92 23
- PT2721.E48
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Fiction | The Harden Library, King's Hospital | Fiction Section | F SEE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | R15444W0499 |
Translated from the German.
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, his 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.
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