The Café with No Name

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Pub Date 13 Feb 2025 | Archive Date 13 Feb 2025

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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.

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...


Advance Praise

‘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 own league, capturing a place and time that is ultimately universal’ ELIZABETH STROUT    


Praise for Robert Seethaler:

A Whole Life is a lovely contemplation of a life in solitude in a remote valley, into which the modern world slowly intrudes’
IAN McEWAN     

    
‘Heart-rending and heartwarming. A Whole Life, for all its gentleness, is a very powerful book’ JIM CRACE         

‘Seethaler's scenes of mountain life are realised with spare, almost surreally vivid images. But what is perhaps most remarkable about this remarkable novel is the way that it continually weaves past, present and future into a single fabric’ Sunday Times

‘A slim masterpiece’ Daily Mail         

‘Seethaler renders a life at once ordinary and exquisite, exploring the vagaries of solitude with a gentle humility’ Times Literary Supplement

‘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 own league, capturing a place and time that is...


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EDITION Hardcover
ISBN 9781837260140
PRICE £16.99 (GBP)
PAGES 224

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