Open and free to all literature friends we discuss the novel The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler. Books are available to buy from the library beforehand.
Austria 1937: The 17-year old Franz Huchel seeks his fortune by leaving his hometown to go to Vienna for an apprenticeship as a tobacconist selling tobacco and newspapers. There he meets a regular customer, Sigmund Freud, and is immediately enamored with his presence. When Franz falls head over heels in love with the burlesque dancer Anezka and then enters a period of tumult, he seeks council from the professor.
Robert Seethaler, born 1966 in Vienna, is a much acclaimed author and script writer. His fourth novel
The Tobacconist (2012), a public success, is followed by the recent novel A Whole Life (2014). Seethaler livers in Vienna and Berlin.
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