The Café with No Name
Robert Seethaler author Katy Derbyshire translator
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Canongate Books
Publishing:13th Feb '25
£16.99
This title is due to be published on 13th February, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
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.
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 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, author of ALL THE LIVES WE NEVER LIVED
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, 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 Café with No Name strikes with the force of life -- NICK ARVIN, author of MAD BOY
200 pages of pure reading pleasure -- FLORIAN BALKE * * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung * *
Magnificent! Highly and unequivocally recommended -- FLORENCE NOIVILLE * * Le Monde * *
There is so much at stake in this novel, almost everything * * Frankfurter Rundschau * *
Seethaler is a god of ordinary people's feelings. His characters and settings come alive without a single wasted word and with no undue heaviness at all; his style is straightforward and pure * * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung * *
Seethaler moves from life's dramas to the love of others and engages his readers to the point where they will feel as if they too are regulars at this Viennese café * * Il Piccolo * *
ISBN: 9781837260140
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
224 pages
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