![]() ![]() ![]() Set against the backdrop of an awesome natural world, this is a life lived modestly, often in solitude, and in consternation at the changes taking place around him as his village transitions from provincial enclave to tourist destination during the later years of the twentieth century.Ī Whole Life offers a simple story. But as a young man, he is able to quit this situation and make his own way, eventually meeting a woman with whom he falls in love, before he leaves the village to serve in World War II. His early years are difficult, and include routine beatings by his reluctant guardian, one of which is so severe that it leaves him to walk with a limp. ![]() It has been a bestseller in its original German language publication (selling some 150,000 copies) and readers can now join in this thoroughly deserved enthusiasm in English translation.Īndreas Egger is born in 1898, though his exact birth date is unknown: he was left orphaned at a young age and sent to live with a farmer uncle and his family in a village nestled in the Austrian Alps. ![]()
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