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Not a word is wasted.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Quote_from_review_4":"Tender, quiet, gentle, poetic — a little treasure.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_5":"In the latest from Booker-nominated Robert Seethaler, three people collide in Nazi-occupied Vienna: a teenage villager named Franz; Anezka, the vaudeville dancer he’s fallen for; and Sigmund Freud, dispensing some questionable advice.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_6":"Robert Seethaler is a great storyteller who loves his characters, and he has a wonderful sense of the dramatic which never gets out of hand.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_7":"The Tobacconist is a stirring, affecting, extremely multi-faceted book. It’s a coming-of-age novel, a love story, a portrait of society, and although it’s a work of fiction it reads like an important contemporary document of the darkest period in Austria’s history. All this is conveyed by Robert Seethaler with such literary lightness, precision and vivid imagery that, like the protagonist himself, the reader is inevitably swept up in the maelstrom of events.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_8":"With this novel Robert Seethaler has created a wonderful tale of adolescence, told with great lightness and humour — but the dark rumblings of the hard times just starting in Vienna are always present in the background.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_9":"The Tobacconist is a poignant, tragic look at the creeping rise of fascism in Vienna before the outbreak of the Second World War. Told with humor and pity, the novel expertly depicts how easy it is to find, and lose, one's place in the world.","OtherText_Quot_10":"Robert Seethaler is a great storyteller who loves his characters, and he has a wonderful sense of the dramatic which never gets out of hand.","OtherText_Quot_11":"Robert Seethaler writes about all this in a way that is understated yet captivating and very poetically powerful, stylistically confident.","OtherText_Quot_12":"For me, Seethaler is a great storyteller in the tradition of Polgar and Joseph Roth.","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“Seethaler blends tragedy and whimsy to create a bittersweet picture of youthful ideals getting clobbered by external forces.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Set at a time of lengthening shadows, this is a novel about the sparks that illuminate the dark: of wisdom, compassion, defiance, and courage. It is wry, piercing and also, fittingly, radiant.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Daily Mail","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Robert Seethaler’s The Tobacconist is a coming-of-age story, that’s sweet, balanced between pathos and humour.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“The Tobacconist is a poignant, tragic look at the creeping rise of fascism in Vienna before the outbreak of the Second World War. Told with humor and pity, the novel expertly depicts how easy it is to find, and lose, one's place in the world.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Shelf Awareness","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“This powerful work evokes the hate-mongering and mistrust engendered by the war while leavening melancholy with sly wit.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Set in Austria in the 1930s, The Tobacconist tells the story of one young man and his friendship with Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna.","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2016-10-08","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Set in Austria in the 1930s, The Tobacconist tells the story of one young man and his friendship with Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna."}