This is my first approach to Robert Seethaler (Vienna, 1966). I haven't read "a lifetime", so I can't compare any. What I can anticipate is that "the seller of tobacco" I liked, with nuances. Let's see, we're at 1937. We know Franz Huchel, a young man who lives with his mother in a small Austrian town. The death of a kind of family benefactor puts them in a complicated economic situation, so that at the end of summer Franz will have to leave his home to settle in Vienna, where an old friend of his mother offers him employment as apprentice in an establishment Of sales of press, tobacco and stationery material. A new life will begin there. You will learn the trade, be informed professionally ... [Read more]