The Shoe Tester of Frankfurt A Novel

<b>This brief and poignant novel from Germany explores existential questions as its 46-year-old narrator reflects on broken relationships and other failures, and struggles to come to terms with life.</b><br> <br> <i>The Shoe Tester of Frankfurt</i> by Wilhelm Genazino, 2004 recipient of the Georg-Buchner-Preis, Germany's highest literary honor, is finally available to English-speaking readers in a pitch-perfect translation by Philip Boehm.<br> <br> Employed by a high-end shoe manufacturer to test new