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