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The Café with No Name
Robert Seethaler
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Description for The Café with No Name
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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 café 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 café, and to Robert's dream.
A story of the hopes, kindnesses and everyday heroism of one community, The Café 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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2025
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781837260164
SKU
V9781837260164
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Ref
99-98
About Robert Seethaler
Robert Seethaler was born in Vienna in 1966 and is the author of several novels including A Whole Life, which was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, and The Tobacconist, which was a number one German bestseller. Originally published in 2023, Seethaler's novel The Café with No Name was an instant number one bestseller, spending 44 weeks on the bestseller list. His works have been translated into over 40 languages. Katy Derbyshire is a Berlin-based translator. She has translated works by Christa Wolf, Inka Parei and Clemens Meyer, most notably Meyer's novel Bricks and Mortar, which won the Straelener Prize for Translation. Meyer and Derbyshire have twice been longlisted for the International Booker Prize.
Reviews for The Café with No Name
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 [A] moving, charming novel about to what extent we must change as the world around us hurtles into the unknown
ELLEN PEIRSON-HAGGER
The Observer
Rewarding . . . written with an understated and elegant restraint that is no less poignant and powerful for it
TAN TWAN ENG In common with Seethaler's earlier work, this is a pensive novel, written with sensitivity and compassion . . . Seethaler's subtly understated voice remains warmly welcome in a literary culture that often displays its intentions too obviously. Many will love this calming, gentle and unsentimental story. Certainly, Seethaler remains admirably true to his creative vision. A poet of the small, the random and the event without consequence, his is a world we can all enjoy
Guardian
Seethaler's literary preoccupations [can be placed] alongside writers such as Claire Keegan, John Berger or John Williams . . . Modest ambitions, when precisely executed, make lasting impressions . . . his latest fable-like miniature invites quiet wonder into the ordinary
Financial Times
The Café With No Name deals with the small dramas of everyday life. . . The prose has the stillness of a Vermeer . . . In a world of action movies and social media there's little time for quiet contemplation. Seethaler reminds us we're part of a whole
Spectator
Seethaler's prose is deceptively simple, filled with exquisite yet simple details that illuminate the world of the café . . . [The] novel lingers like the scent of coffee in the air - warm, fleeting, and profoundly human
Independent Book Review
Robert Seethaler has always created the epic from the ordinary . . . In The Café 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 Infused with bright, beautiful glimmers of human connection, The Café 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 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 Café with No Name strikes with the force of life
NICK ARVIN
ELIZABETH STROUT [A] moving, charming novel about to what extent we must change as the world around us hurtles into the unknown
ELLEN PEIRSON-HAGGER
The Observer
Rewarding . . . written with an understated and elegant restraint that is no less poignant and powerful for it
TAN TWAN ENG In common with Seethaler's earlier work, this is a pensive novel, written with sensitivity and compassion . . . Seethaler's subtly understated voice remains warmly welcome in a literary culture that often displays its intentions too obviously. Many will love this calming, gentle and unsentimental story. Certainly, Seethaler remains admirably true to his creative vision. A poet of the small, the random and the event without consequence, his is a world we can all enjoy
Guardian
Seethaler's literary preoccupations [can be placed] alongside writers such as Claire Keegan, John Berger or John Williams . . . Modest ambitions, when precisely executed, make lasting impressions . . . his latest fable-like miniature invites quiet wonder into the ordinary
Financial Times
The Café With No Name deals with the small dramas of everyday life. . . The prose has the stillness of a Vermeer . . . In a world of action movies and social media there's little time for quiet contemplation. Seethaler reminds us we're part of a whole
Spectator
Seethaler's prose is deceptively simple, filled with exquisite yet simple details that illuminate the world of the café . . . [The] novel lingers like the scent of coffee in the air - warm, fleeting, and profoundly human
Independent Book Review
Robert Seethaler has always created the epic from the ordinary . . . In The Café 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 Infused with bright, beautiful glimmers of human connection, The Café 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 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 Café with No Name strikes with the force of life
NICK ARVIN