The international bestselling author of A Whole Life, The Tobacconist and The Cafe with No Name returns with a moving portrait of an artist at the end of his life, aboard a ship for his final journey from New York to Europe.
Charlotte Collins studied English at Cambridge University. She worked as an actor and radio journalist in both Germany and the UK before becoming a literary translator. Her translation of A Whole Life was awarded the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize in 2017. She has translated three other novels by Robert Seethaler, as well as works by Nino Haratischwili, Eva Menasse and Bernhard Schlink.
