A Whole Life

"All My Life" on the Booker Prize shortlist—one of the most prestigious literary awards!

Andreas Egger grew up in a distant Alpine village, not knowing what the world beyond the mountain ranges surrounding it looked like. Simple physical labor, love for a beautiful girl, a calm, measured life—all of it turned out to be extremely fragile in the face of the forces of nature and World War II. This is a tender and beautiful story about a person’s relationship with nature, about loneliness, about the arrival of the modern world—and most importantly, about everyday little things that make us who we are.