Publication Date: 13/02/2025 ISBN: 9781837260140 Category:

The Cafe with No Name

Robert Seethaler, Katy Derbyshire

Publisher: Canongate Books
Publication Date: 13/02/2025 ISBN: 9781837260140 Category:
Hardback

£16.99

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THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

‘How I loved this book . . . Seethaler is in his very own league’ Elizabeth Strout

It is 1966, and Robert Simon has just fulfilled his dream by taking over a cafe on the corner of a bustling Vienna market. He recruits a barmaid, Mila, and soon the customers flock in. Factory workers, market traders, elderly ladies, a wrestler, a painter, an unemployed seamstress in search of a job, each bring their stories and their plans for the future. As Robert listens and Mila refills their glasses, romances bloom, friendships are made and fortunes change. And change is coming to the city around them, to the little cafe, and to Robert’s dream.

A story of the hopes, kindnesses and everyday heroism of one community, The Cafe with No Name has charmed millions of European readers. It is an unforgettable novel about how we carry each other through good and bad times, and how even the most ordinary life is, in its own way, quite extraordinary.

Publisher Review

How I loved this book! Filled with truth after truth, poignantly rendered and given to us with tender open-handedness. Seethaler is in his very own league, capturing a place and time that is ultimately universal — ELIZABETH STROUT Rewarding . . . written with an understated and elegant restraint that is no less poignant and powerful for it — TAN TWAN ENG Robert Seethaler has always created the epic from the ordinary . . . In The Cafe with No Name, he makes poetry out of the broken lives of the lost and disregarded who inhabit the margins of the great city and shows us how gold can be found in dust — ANURADHA ROY, author of ALL THE LIVES WE NEVER LIVED Infused with bright, beautiful glimmers of human connection, The Cafe with No Name is a novel as cosy and welcoming as the meeting place established by its protagonist . . . Readers will turn the last page feeling an indelible part of the community Seethaler so lovingly and joyously brings to life — SHANNON BOWRING, author of THE ROAD TO DALTON A masterful novel about work and love, connection and despair, how we carry one another, how we transcend the days and the indignities, and how no life is mundane . . . On page after page, Robert Seethaler’s The Cafe with No Name strikes with the force of life — NICK ARVIN, author of MAD BOY Seethaler’s story bursts with empathy in its portrayal of a found family. This is a winner * * Publisher’s Weekly * * A gem of a novel, whimsical and bittersweet but never sentimental, with indelible characters and a powerful sense of place * * Kirkus * * [In The Cafe with No Name], we watch as Vienna begins to climb its way out of the long grim period of postwar poverty and into something that looks, by the end of the novel, like the beginning of modernity – for better or for worse. This is a sweet book, but it never cloys * * Vox * * 200 pages of pure reading pleasure — FLORIAN BALKE * * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung * * Magnificent! Highly and unequivocally recommended — FLORENCE NOIVILLE * * Le Monde * *

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