The Field

Resumen del libro

If the dead could speak, what would they say to the living?From their graves in the field, the oldest part of Paulstadt's cemetery, the town's 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 they've 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. The streets of the small, sleepy provincial town of Paulstadt are given shape and meaning by those who lived, loved, worked, mourned and died there.

Biografía del autor

Robert Seethaler, geb. 1966, erhielt zahlreiche Stipendien, darunter das Alfred-Döblin-Stipendium der Akademie der Künste und das Heinrich-Heine-Stipendium. Der Film nach seinem Drehbuch 'Die zweite Frau' wurde mehrfach ausgezeichnet und auf verschiedenen internationalen Filmfestivals gezeigt. Robert Seethaler lebt in Wien und Berlin. <br>