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OCoLC
20181115064757.0
160608s2016 enk 000 f eng d
GBB6A5167
bnb
9781509806584
150980658X
9781509806614
150980661X
9781509806607
(OCoLC)960964327
NLE
eng
rda
NLE
YDX
OCLCO
eng
ger
PT2721.E48
T7313 2016
833.92
23
187686
Seethaler, Robert,
1966-
author.
The tobacconist /
Robert Seethaler ; translated by Charlotte Collins.
234 pages ;
22 cm
Translated from the German.
When seventeen-year-old Franz exchanges his home in the idyllic beauty of the Austrian lake district for the bustle of Vienna, his homesickness quickly dissolves amidst the thrum of the city. In his role as apprentice to the elderly tobacconist Otto Trsnyek, he will soon be supplying the great and good of Vienna with their newspapers and cigarettes. Among the regulars is a Professor Freud, whose predilection for cigars and occasional willingness to dispense romantic advice will forge a bond between him and young Franz.
It is 1937. In a matter of months Germany will annex Austria and the storm that has been threatening to engulf the little tobacconist will descend, leaving the lives of Franz, Otto and Professor Freud irredeemably changed. In the tradition of novels such as Fred Uhlman's classic Reunion, Bernhard Schlink's The Reader and Rachel Seiffert's The Dark Room, The Tobacconist tells a deeply moving story of ordinary lives profoundly affected by the Third Reich.
World War, 1939-1945
Austria
Vienna
Fiction.
187688
Vienna (Austria)
History
20th century
Fiction.
187689
Historical fiction.
lcgft
456
225789
Bildungsromans.
187687
Collins, Charlotte,
1967-
translator.
ebook version :
9781509806607
ddc
AF
161109
161109