A revealing View
Robert Seethaler is an Austrian writer I discovered in one of my recent trips. While browsing books from the curated list in a German Airport Book store, ( Which I do every time when I go to a new city or Country ) I was immediately hooked by the Simple story line. I immediately filed this in my to list. Soon after returning, I started reading his "The Tobacconist" on my Kindle when I realized that I had bought this book sometime back and had not read it yet. From the start, the images those simple lines evoked were magical. The Translation by Charlotte Collins is so refreshingly smooth. It has managed to catch all the "Austro-German" Nuances that oozes out of Seethaler's narration. The Language and the images it evoke, sometimes Funny, sometimes Poignant, is very strong and dazzling. If you want to read a fine, Nuanced international literary work in recent times without much of exertion, I would strongly recommend you this book. In 240+ pages, this is a beautif...