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The acclaimed author of A Whole Life and The Tobacconist, the bestselling and Booker International-shortlisted Robert Seethaler tells the story of a town through the voices from its graveyard: a moving story about life and death and human connection.

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‘One of those rare novels that can move you existentially, and change you.’ SWR‘This book about a village’s dead proves that subtle literary quality and bestseller success do not have to be mutually exclusive.’ Die Zeit‘The whole thing is so wonderfully crafted . . . that you literally don’t want to stop reading, that you’re sad to come to the end . . . What he has mastered like few other authors in German literary history is to give all his c...

‘One of those rare novels that can move you existentially, and change you.’ SWRThe field is the oldest part of Paulstadt’s cemetery, and where some of its most out-spoken residents can be found. Instead of resting silently in their graves, these late inhabitants tell stories from their lives. Some recall a single moment – perhaps their final one on earth, or the one they now see changed the course of their life for ever. Some remember all the ...

Tender and elegiac . . . Devastating . . . Complex, ambitious and moving' Times Literary Supplement'Essential reading for the early years of the twenty-first century' Scotland on Sunday'Told with a dry wit that enhances, rather than disguises, the sadness of its story, The Tobacconist is a touching miniature of an ordinary life irrevocably altered by the larger forces of history' Sunday Times

When seventeen-year-old Franz leaves his rural home to take a job as a Viennese tobacconist's apprentice, his initial homesickness soon fades amidst the fascinations of the city. Among the shop's regular customers is a Professor Freud, whose predilection for cigars and occasional willingness to dispense romantic advice will forge a bond between him and young Franz.It is 1937. In a matter of months, Germany will annex Austria and the storm that...

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Set in Austria in the 1930s, The Tobacconist tells the story of one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna.