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A whole life, Robert Seethaler ; translated by Charlotte Collins

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A whole life, Robert Seethaler ; translated by Charlotte Collins

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eng

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fiction

Main title

A whole life

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Robert Seethaler ; translated by Charlotte Collins

Summary

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

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