![]() I say death brings forth nothing at all! Death is the Cold Lady.” This discussion of death hangs over the entire story like a dark storm cloud. Horned Hannes tells Egger: “People say death brings forth new life, but people are stupider than the stupidest nanny goat. As Egger is struggling down the mountain side with the goatherd strapped to his back they engage in an eerie conversation about death. ![]() Between the time that Egger loses the goatherd while carrying him down the mountain and the goatherd’s petrified body is found forty years later on a mountain ledge, we are told the story of Egger’s whole life.įrom the beginning of the book there is a sense of foreboding and ill omen. Egger attempts to carry the goatherd on his back down the mountain but in a fit of madness due to his fever the goatherd runs off into the snow never to be seen again. Hannes is a reclusive goatherd who lives in the same Austrian mountain village as Egger and when Egger finds the old man he is barely alive. ![]() We are first introduced to Andres Egger in 1933 when he has had an unexplained instinct to pay a visit to his elderly neighbor, Horned Hannes. The book was published in the original German in 2014 and this English version has been translated by Charlotte Collins. ![]() ![]() I received a review copy of this title from Farrar, Straus & Giroux via Netgalley. ![]()
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