Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
- Hanser has by now sold 300,000 copies of A WHOLE LIFE (hardcover and e combined, the paperback isn't even out yet). The novel has been on the Spiegel bestseller list for an entire year.
- The numbers for THE TOBACCONIST (DER TRAFIKANT) are northward of 300,000 copies.
- We will be publishing the paperback edition of The Tobaconnist simultaneously in Canada and the U.S. in September of 2017
Synopsis
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?
Synopsis
- We presented The Tobacconist in our Rep Pick sessions at Winter Institute and distributed galleys in the galley room.
- We are sending galleys to BEA, for distribution through the ABA, and we'll distribute galleys at ALA Annual in June 2017.
- Robert Seethaler's Man Booker International Prize finalist work, A Whole Life, was published to rave reviews in Fall 2016 by FSG.
- Hanser has sold 300,000 copies of A WHOLE LIFE, and the novel has been on the Spiegel bestseller list for an entire year: http: //www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/spiegel-bestseller-hardcover-a-1025428.html
- The sales figures for The Tobacconist (DER TRAFIKANT) are also over 300,000 copies.
- Perfect for fans of historical and translated literary fiction.
- The Tobacconist will be available on NetGalley and Edelweiss.