The Cafe with No Name by Robert Seethaler
The international bestselling author of A Whole Life and The Tobacconist returns with a captivating historical tale set in 1960s ViennaRewarding . . . 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
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
Seethaler's story bursts with empathy in its portrayal of a found family. This is a winner * * Publisher's Weekly * *
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 * *
A gem of a novel, whimsical and bittersweet but never sentimental, with indelible characters and a powerful sense of place * * Kirkus * *
[In The Café with No Name], we watch as Vienna begins to climb its way out of the long grim period of postwar poverty and into something that looks, by the end of the novel, like the beginning of modernity - for better or for worse. This is a sweet book, but it never cloys * * Vox * *
200 pages of pure reading pleasure -- FLORIAN BALKE * * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung * *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781837260140 |
| ISBN 10 | 1837260141 |
| Title | The Cafe with No Name |
| Author | Robert Seethaler |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Canongate Books |
| Year published | 2025-02-13 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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