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In the latest from Booker-nominated Robert Seethaler, three people collide in Nazi-occupied Vienna: a teenage villager named Franz; Anezka, the vaudeville dancer he's fallen for; and Sigmund Freud, dispensing some questionable advice.--Danielle Groen "Chatelaine "

I haven't read a more beautiful book in years.--SWR2 Book of the Week

With The Tobacconist, Robert Seethaler has succeeded in writing a wholly coherent, condensed coming-of-age novel. Not a word is wasted.--Die Presse

Seethaler writes with great lightness of how reading widely and accumulating wisdom make life richer, but also more complicated.--Der Spiegel

Tender, quiet, gentle, poetic -- a little treasure.--Elke Heidenreich, SWR

The Tobacconist is a stirring, affecting, extremely multi-faceted book. It's a coming-of-age novel, a love story, a portrait of society, and although it's a work of fiction it reads like an important contemporary document of the darkest period in Austria's history. All this is conveyed by Robert Seethaler with such literary lightness, precision and vivid imagery that, like the protagonist himself, the reader is inevitably swept up in the maelstrom of events.--ORF

Robert Seethaler is a great storyteller who loves his characters, and he has a wonderful sense of the dramatic which never gets out of hand.--20 Minuten

With this novel Robert Seethaler has created a wonderful tale of adolescence, told with great lightness and humour -- but the dark rumblings of the hard times just starting in Vienna are always present in the background.--kulturtipp

His unbelievable ease of writing is so pleasant.--Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

For me, Seethaler is a great storyteller in the tradition of Polgar and Joseph Roth.--Gerhard Polt

Reseña del editor

From The Man Booker International Prize finalist Robert Seethaler comes a tender, heartbreaking story about one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna.

Seventeen-year-old Franz Huchel journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, and over time the two very different men form a singular friendship. When Franz falls desperately in love with the music-hall dancer Anezka, he seeks advice from the renowned psychoanalyst, who admits that the female sex is as big a mystery to him as it is to Franz.

As political and social conditions in Austria dramatically worsen with the Nazis’ arrival in Vienna, Franz, Freud, and Anezka are swept into the maelstrom of events. Each has a big decision to make: to stay or to flee?