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The Field

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ISBN: 9781529008067
AuthorSeethaler, Robert
Pub Date18/03/2021
BindingTrade PB
CountryIRL
Dewey
Publisher: Picador
Quick overview If the dead could speak, what would they say to the living? From the author of the Booker International-shortlisted 'A Whole Life', Robert Seethalers 'The Field' is about what happens at the end. It is a book of human lives each one different, yet connected to countless others that ultimately shows how life, for all its fleetingness, still has meaning.
€16.39

rom their graves in the field, the oldest part of Paulstadts cemetery, the towns late inhabitants tell stories from their lives. Some recall just a moment, perhaps the one in which they left this world, perhaps the one that they now realize shaped their life forever. Some remember all the people theyve been with, or the only person they ever loved.

These voices together young, old, rich poor build a picture of a community, as viewed from below ground instead of from above.

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rom their graves in the field, the oldest part of Paulstadts cemetery, the towns late inhabitants tell stories from their lives. Some recall just a moment, perhaps the one in which they left this world, perhaps the one that they now realize shaped their life forever. Some remember all the people theyve been with, or the only person they ever loved.

These voices together young, old, rich poor build a picture of a community, as viewed from below ground instead of from above.

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