The Cafe with No Name - Robert Seethaler
Robert Seethaler
- Pages · 224 pages
- Publication Date · 09/04/2026
- Genre · Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'How I loved this book . . . Seethaler is in his very own league' Elizabeth Strout '[A] moving, charming novel about to what extent we must change as the world around us hurtles into the unknown' Observer It is 1966, and Robert Simon has just fulfilled his dream by taking over a caf� 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, 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 caf�, and to Robert's dream. The Caf� 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.
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