In the tradition of novels such as Fred Uhlman's classic Reunion, Bernhard Schlink's THE READER and Rachel Seiffert's THE DARK ROOM, THE TOBACCONIST tells a deeply moving story of ordinary lives profoundly affected by the Third Reich, set in Vienna in 1937. From the bestselling author of A Whole Life, a moving account of an ordinary young man living through extraordinary times, and the lengths we will go to in order to protect what we love.