A Whole Life, Robert Seethaler. Austria

@brittarnhild

I read this book by the Austrian writer Robert Seethaler several years ago, and was looking through my shelves for something else when I found it again, took it out, brought it with me to the cabin and started to read it. A few hours later I had again followed the life of Andres Egger, a little boy, a young man and all the way to his death in his eighties. Egger lived his whole life, except for some years as a war prisoner in Russia after the war, in a small, remote village in the Austrian mountains, and the book is spun around this. A simple life, a hard life and through hardship, love, loss also a beautiful life.

I will put it back in my shelves, and one day I will read it again.

 

And as I have not yet, since I started reading my way around the world, read anything my an Austrian author. So this one will be put on the list.