The Cafe with No Name

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 cafe 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 cafe, and to Robert''s dream. A story of the hopes, kindnesses and everyday heroism of one community, The Cafe 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.

Bericht

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

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Robert Seethaler
• Mitarbeit: Katy Derbyshire (Übersetzung), Derbyshire Katy (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 13.02.2025
• EAN: 9781837260164
• ISBN: 978-1-83726-016-4
• Seiten: 224
• Abmessung: 135 mm x 214 mm x 17 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary