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The Tobacconist

Written by: Robert Seethaler, Charlotte Collins, Charlotte Collins - translator
Narrated by: Rupert Simonian
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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?

©2016 Robert Seethaler, Charlotte Collins (P)2018 Anansi Audio Historical Fiction World Literature Fiction
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Written thoughtfully and beautifully read. I recommend it. The writing is subtle but the theme comes out loud and clear. Well translated.

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