A Whole Life

By Robert Seethaler, Charlotte Collins (translator),

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Book description

'Heart-rending and heart-warming . . . for all its gentleness, a very powerful novel' Jim Crace

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…

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Why read it?

1 author picked A Whole Life as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This novel traces a man's entire life in about 150 pages. The ups and downs and the changes over the course of the 20th Century. It's a little gem of a book, translated from the German by Charlotte Collins.

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