This book tells the simple alpine life story of Andreas Eggers. An orphan. A farm hand. A manual worker. A husband. A soldier. A prisoner. A free man. A survivor. Through his eyes we see the world change and evolve around him, from the introduction of electricity and automobiles, to WWII and the tourism that boomed in alps in the years afterwards.
It’s a simple contemplation of a simple life, a life with hardships and disaster, but of a man with the natural will to keep going.
Considering I picked this up by accident thinking it was a non-fiction book about nature, this was a charming story. It is short and without complexity but it was rewarding to experience the world though the eyes of this man.