Toda Una Vida (Paperback)

from jon1lambert

Andreas Egger ekes out his life in the mountains, seeing and experiencing suffering and tragedy all around him in the natural world, experiencing suffering at war and watching rampant commercialization disrupt the old ways. Wonderful book.

from hemlokgang

A quiet gem of a read. When it comes right down to it, what constitutes 'a whole life" Is it our memories, although they change with time? Is it who we have known? Is it the challenges we have faced and the manner in which we have done so? In the end, it seems to me that it is an ephemeral notion...

from LynnB

What is a full life? A happy life? This short book covers the lifespan of Andreas Eggers, who leaves his small mountain village only once (to fight in WWII). We meet him as a young orphan who comes to live with his uncle. Andreas works on his uncle's farm, then on his own doing odd jobs. He falls...

from EBT1002

"Scars are like years, he said: one follows another and it's all of them together that make a person who they are." "You can buy a man's hours off him, you can steal his days from him, or you can rob him of his whole life, but not one can take away from any man so much as a single moment. That's ...

from AlisonY

A Whole Life is a gentle, moving novella about the life of a simple, unremarkable man from the mountains. Told in matter-of-fact prose we journey with him (at some pace) through experiences that shape a lifetime, where tragedy and suffering is met with private forbearance and resignation whilst q...