![]() ![]() ![]() Like John Williams' Stoner or Denis Johnson's Train Dreams, A Whole Life is a tender book about finding dignity and beauty in solitude. 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. When Marie dies in an avalanche, pregnant with their first child, Andreas' heart is broken. ![]() 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. This is a profound, wise and humane novel that no reader will forget." Irish TimesĪndreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a young boy taken in by a farming family. SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2016 ![]()
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