Product Description
The Late Life
Author: Bernhard Schlink
Format: Physical Hardcopy
What can death teach us about life? 'One of the greatest achievements of the author of The Reader ' Les Echos 'Schlink's novel belongs alongside Julian Barnes's. It sounds like a farewell' Le Figaro littéraire 'Masterful' Süddeutsche Zeitung At seventy-six, Martin Brehm is, by his own measure, content.
He tends his garden, writes, and cares for his six-year-old son, David, while his much younger wife pursues her work as a painter. Their life, though unconventional, feels complete - until a diagnosis of terminal cancer gives him only months to live.
Confronted with the certainty of his death, Martin becomes determined to secure a future for those he loves and leave behind something lasting. But as his plans unfold, he begins to question what it truly means to give.
What will remain a gift and what will become a burden? In the final season of his life, Martin must face the limits of intention and the necessity of letting go.
The Late Life is a tender, searching and quietly profound novel that explores how to live fully at the edge of death, the value of a good death and how to leave, well. 'One of Germany's most celebrated and popular writers' Financial Times Translated from the German by Charlotte Collins
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