The tobacconist
By: Robert Seethaler ; translated by Charlotte Collins
Contributors: Collins, Charlotte, 1967- translator
Publisher: Anansi International
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781487002510
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Fiction; World War, 1939-1945; History
Work titles: Trafikant
Description: "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?"--Back cover.
Notes: Translation from the German of: Der trafikant.