The Shoe Tester of Frankfurt (German: Ein Regenschirm für diesen Tag) is a 2001 novel by the German writer Wilhelm Genazino.
It is a flâneur novel about a man who works for a high-end shoe company and encounters various people from his past in Frankfurt.
The book became a bestseller in Germany and a late breakthrough for Genazino, who was approaching his 60s at the time.
[1] It was published in English translation by Philip Boehm in 2006.
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