Obscured text on back cover due to sticker attached. For fans of The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono, Silk by Alessandro Baricco and Sandor Marai's Embers, Seethaler looks at the moments, big and small, that make us what we are. Its English translation (by Charlotte Collins), short-listed for the Man Booker International. An exquisite novel about a simple life, it has already demonstrated its power to move thousands of readers with a message of solace and truth. Seethaler’s latest book, A Whole Life (Ein ganzes Leben) was a huge bestseller in Germany. Like John Williams' Stoner or Denis Johnson's Train Dreams, A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler is a tender book about finding dignity and beauty in solitude. The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler review bittersweet follow-up to A Whole Life Robert Seethaler has another hit on his hands with this coming-of-age tale set in pre-war Vienna. 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. 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.
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