A Whole Life - Robert Seethaler

Category: Adults, Contemporary, General Fiction, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: 21st Century Contemporary Fiction German Literature Germany Historical Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Novels Roman

Written by Robert Seethaler, Charlotte Collins (Translator)
Read by Sam Peter Jackson
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Short-listed, Man Booker International, GB, 2016

Long-listed, International Dublin Literary, 2017

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….

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. An exquisite novel about a simple life, it has already demonstrated its power to move thousands of people with a message of solace and truth. It looks at the moments, big and small, that make us what we are.

Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
Release date: 03-18-21