A Whole Life
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“In this quiet, serenely powerful novel, a man lives out his life in a remote mountain village as the . . . 20th century sweeps past.” —Kirkus Reviews
An International Bestseller
Winner of the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize
Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award
Andreas Egger knows every path and peak of his mountain valley, the source of his sustenance, his livelihood—his home.
Set in the mid-twentieth century and told with beauty and tenderness, Robert Seethaler’s A Whole Life is a story of a man’s relationship with an ancient landscape, o the value of solitude, of the arrival of the modern world, and above all, of the moments, great and small, that make us who we are.
An International Bestseller
Winner of the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize
Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award
Andreas Egger knows every path and peak of his mountain valley, the source of his sustenance, his livelihood—his home.
Set in the mid-twentieth century and told with beauty and tenderness, Robert Seethaler’s A Whole Life is a story of a man’s relationship with an ancient landscape, o the value of solitude, of the arrival of the modern world, and above all, of the moments, great and small, that make us who we are.
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