The Café with No Name

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
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
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 * *
A novel written by a pure talent * * Il Quotidiano * *