Book guide
The Tobacconist
A Viennese tobacconist’s apprentice finds friendship, first love and danger as Nazism closes in.
GenresHistoricalLiterary
Genre and trope pairingsLiterarySelf-discoveryLiteraryComing of age
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About The Tobacconist
Seventeen-year-old Franz leaves the Austrian lake district for Vienna, where he becomes apprentice to tobacconist Otto Trsnyek and befriends Sigmund Freud. As 1937 gives way to annexation and Nazi threat, Franz, Otto and Freud are drawn into choices that change their lives.
Reading signals
- Spice
- Light
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Balanced
Content warnings
- antisemitism
- death
- violence
- blood
- war
- grief
- sexual content
- suicide
