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Robert Seethaler (born 1966) is an Austrian novelist, and actor.
Vienna-born actor and writer Robert Seethaler grew up in Germany and moved to Berlin in 1998. A Whole Life, his disciplined fifth novel, is as haunting and as spare as Stoner. It has been ...
Robert Seethaler is an Austrian living in Berlin and is the author of four previous novels. A Whole Life is his first work to be translated into English and is already a German bestseller, selling over 100,000 copies. The book has been translated from its original German by Charlotte Collins.
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Oct 8, 2018 · Robert Seethaler, who himself was born in Vienna in 1966, literally sucks the reader into a backwards rural milieu populated with gruff, unfriendly and sometimes brutal people....
Jul 1, 2014 · The Austrian author Robert Seethaler gingerly depicts the austere life of a man, Andreas Egger, living and working in a remote alpine village where he has arrived in his early childhood as an orphan. He glances through Egger’s working life, his marriage and his encounters with social change and World History - war imprisonment and labour camp ...
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Aug 24, 2016 · Mr. Seethaler’s latest book, “A Whole Life” (Ein ganzes Leben) was a huge bestseller in Germany. Its English translation (by Charlotte Collins), short-listed for the Man Booker...
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May 6, 2021 · 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.