{"product_id":"the-late-life-from-the-author-of-the-no-1-international-bestsellers-the-reader-and-the-granddaughter","title":"The Late Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat can death teach us about life?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'One of the greatest achievements of the author of The Reader' Les Echos\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Schlink's novel belongs alongside Julian Barnes's. It sounds like a farewell' Le Figaro litteraire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Masterful' Suddeutsche Zeitung\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConfronted 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'One of Germany's most celebrated and popular writers' Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated from the German by Charlotte Collins\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ADS Alliance","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50658905653471,"sku":"9781399627559","price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2185\/3151\/files\/9781399627559.jpg?v=1785645012","url":"https:\/\/lamplightbooks.co.nz\/products\/the-late-life-from-the-author-of-the-no-1-international-bestsellers-the-reader-and-the-granddaughter","provider":"Lamplight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}