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The Tobacconist
A Historical Fiction Novel by Robert Seethaler
Subgenres:
- Coming-of-Age,
- Nazi-Occupied Vienna,
- Literary Historical Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Unlikely friendships with historical icons like Freud
- Coming-of-age stories set during the Nazi occupation of Vienna
- Young love complicated by political upheaval
From The Man Booker International Prize finalist Robert Seethaler comes a tender, heartbreaking story of 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?
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