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An international best seller that recalls the quiet power of John Williams' Stoner and Marilynne Robinson's Lila.
Andreas Egger knows every path and peak of his mountain valley, the source of his sustenance, his livelihood - his home.
Set in the mid-20th century and told with beauty and tenderness, Robert Seethaler's A Whole Life is a story of man's relationship with an ancient landscape, of 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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In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt’s family. Tomoko’s aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home—and handsome foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company—are symbols of that status. The seventeen rooms are filled with German-made furnishings; there are sprawling gardens and even an old zoo where the family’s pygmy hippopotamus resides.
De: Yoko Ogawa, y otros
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The Tobacconist
- De: Robert Seethaler, Charlotte Collins, Charlotte Collins - translator
- Narrado por: Rupert Simonian
- Duración: 6 h y 29 m
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Seventeen-year-old Franz Huchel journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, and over time the two very different men form a singular friendship. When Franz falls desperately in love with the music hall dancer Anezka, he seeks advice from the renowned psychoanalyst, who admits that the female sex is as big a mystery to him as it is to Franz.
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Excellent historical drama set in Vienna before & during the Anschluss
- De Mark D. Gideonsen en 05-15-23
De: Robert Seethaler, y otros
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Kitchen
- De: Banana Yoshimoto
- Narrado por: Emily Zeller
- Duración: 4 h y 24 m
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Mikage is an orphan raised by her grandmother, who has passed away. Grieving, Mikage is taken in by her friend, Yoichi, and his mother (who is really his cross-dressing father), Eriko. As the three of them form an improvised family that soon weathers its own tragic losses, Yoshimoto spins a lovely, evocative tale with the kitchen and the comforts of home at its heart.
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First Time is the Charm
- De just asking for some common sense en 08-22-19
De: Banana Yoshimoto
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Neverwhere
- De: Neil Gaiman
- Narrado por: Neil Gaiman
- Duración: 13 h y 48 m
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Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness propels him into a world he never dreamed existed. There are people who fall through the cracks, and Richard has become one of them. And he must learn to survive in this city of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels, if he is ever to return to the London that he knew.
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Truly outstamding!
- De RJT en 10-27-07
De: Neil Gaiman
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The Husbands
- A Novel
- De: Holly Gramazio
- Narrado por: Miranda Raison
- Duración: 10 h y 30 m
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When Lauren returns home to her flat in London late one night, she is greeted at the door by her husband, Michael. There’s only one problem—she’s not married. She’s never seen this man before in her life. But according to her friends, her much-improved decor, and the photos on her phone, they’ve been together for years.
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Ho hum pretty repetitive story
- De Lucy en 05-08-24
De: Holly Gramazio
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre A Whole Life
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- Susan
- 04-05-21
Extraordinary
The message is sublime. With great skill expressing a philosophy that cannot be ignored. It will reach you deeply and you will not be able to let it go.
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- patricia
- 05-04-21
enchanting, you will want to listen all at once
Love the voice of the narrator, the life and story. I recommended to many to hear.
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- Deborah Batjer
- 11-13-23
Lovely Story
This is a little gem of a tale. It’s narrated gently and authenticly to match the slow movement of a simple man’s whole life. The language is beautiful, making me guess that the translator must be a poet - certainly someone who loves language.
My only criticism is that I thought the book could have ended before it actually did. I stopped listening prematurely (when I thought it was the end, so I need to go back).
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- Mel
- 04-08-17
Quiet Power
Beautifully translated from its original German in October 2015, A Whole Life feels like a reflection of a life with a meditative quality. It was the smallest of the finalists for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, nominations for both its author and the translator, Charlotte Collins. I listened and read the modest novel and agree with the publisher's little blurb that author Seethaler has a way similar to the purity and simplicity of John Williams' Stoner:
"Like John Williams' Stoner or Denis Johnson's Train Dreams, A Whole Life
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 readers with a message of solace and truth. It looks at the
moments, big and small, that make us what we are."
[I included the publisher's summary because I didn't see it included on this site.] Short, 3 1/2 hrs; less than 150 pages, but within, the whole life of Andreas Egger. Stoner remains probably my favorite novel for reasons I'm unable to articulate. Sometimes Montaigne's words explain most eloquently my feelings when my words fail me: "I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I." Williams' himself may have given the best description for Seethaler's A Whole Life by chance, when he attempted to describe his own novel, Stoner:"an escape into reality." Most readers feel the book is about *contentment,* *adapting;* that in spite of tribulations, Andreas Egger finds beauty and peace with his life in a little village in the shadow of the towering Austrian mountains. A powerful man of little words and a strong work ethic, Andreas is a survivor.
At the age of four, the boy is pawned off to relatives by an unmarried young mother that wants nothing to do with raising a child. He arrives in the remote little village at his Uncle's farm in a hay cart, a leather pouch hanging around his neck containing a small amount of money. The Uncle is a brutal man, he sees the young boy as another mouth to feed, but also another laborer. Young Andreas is ill-treated and suffers horrible beatings for the smallest infractions: a hiccup, a stutter, a spilled bowl of milk, one beating so severe the boy's leg is fractured and leaves him with a life-long limp. [When a gruff employer asks him what good is he with a limp on such a mountain?! Andreas tells him straightforwardly that his limp is exactly why he is better for the steep mountain.]
Andreas grows quickly into a large boy with great physical strength, invaluable to the Uncle. But the Uncle is more vicious than wise, and when the brawny young Andreas spills a bowl of soup, the Uncle commands him to soak the switch and meet him in the barn. Andreas meets him in the barn, but says, “If you hit me, I’ll kill you.” He sets off and finds a small piece of land he makes his home; enough for a shelter and a small vegetable garden, and he thinks proudly about one day holding open the gate for someone. His strength and tenacity become legendary in his village, but Andreas remains aloof.
The years go by in sentences The village at the foot of those soaring mountains stretches further across a landscape that lies in the path of historic avalanches. Tourists come for the skiing and climbing; industry and progress comes to the mountains -- and so does the war. Andreas adapts to each change the years bring; he marries; he goes to war; he sees men walk on the moon; and near the end of his life he takes a bus ride to the end of the vehicle's route.
I felt a heartbreaking sadness in this man whom others see as a contented adult who finds joy in mountain flowers, patching a hole in his cabin, contentment in his simple daily labors. I thought of the lines from Langston Hughes: "Hold fast to dreams. For if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly." And, I thought of the snarky and less poetic "Cows are contented." Europeans have a culture that seems to me more simple and authentic, so I have to take that into consideration. There is a peacefulness that I also feel when I escape the business that life throws at me, but sometimes there is a longing. Haven't we all experienced that wounded wing that might keep us momentarily grounded from loftier dreams? Andreas felt to me like a wounded gentle animal; a supposed beast that held captive for years then released into the wild, merely drops to his knees and looks vacantly out at the plains before him, craving the security and familiarity of his cage. At the end of his bus ride, Andreas stands up to go back to his little cabin and breaks into convulsive sobs. The bus driver puts his arms around the aging hulk and comforts him as if he were an inconsolable child. I wonder if within himself he held fast to that broken child.
"He did not suffer." Seethaler states.
...Much to think about. A little read that is gigantically beautiful and profound.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-08-18
Wonderful but dull
This novel has beautiful and inviting parts but some will bore you. Overall 3 1/2 rate.
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