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, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge and Lucy by the Sea

“In The Café with No Name, Seethaler is a loving, observant cartographer of Vienna and its people. 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

“Infused with bright, beautiful glimmers of human connection, The Café with No Name is a novel as cozy 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 Cafe with No Name strikes with the force of life.”—Nick Arvin, author of Mad Boy

International Praise for The Café with No Name

“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 (Germany)

“A story so moving that the reader wishes she herself could be a regular at this Café with No Name.”—Brigitte (Germany)

“200 pages of pure reading pleasure.”—Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (Germany)

“There is so much at stake in this novel, almost everything.”—Frankfurter Rundschau (Germany)

“Magnificent! One recognizes immediately Seethaler’s signature style: a subtle, immediately recognizable blend of depth and gentle melancholy, a coziness that envelops you from the first pages... The prose is clear as tinkling crystal and imbued with such tenderness that it seems illuminated from within. Highly and unequivocally recommended.”—Le Monde (France)

“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 (Italy)

“When someone discovers that books are an important part of your life, the inevitable question follows: have you read something beautiful that you’d recommend? It would be all too easy to get entangled in the thicket of taste, attitude, books already read, personal predilections, etc. But to this question, there is an answer: the novels of Robert Seethaler. All of them, one after the other. And if you don’t know where to start, you’re in luck: start with his most recent book, The Café with No Name, a novel written by a pure talent, a storyteller beloved in German-speaking countries and translated into more than 40 languages.”—Il Quotidiano (Italy)

“Seethaler illuminates the lives of ordinary people, people who are making it up as they go along. His characters re vivid and relatable, and Seethaler renders them with a few simple strokes, as if he bumps into them every day at Simon’s café.”—Tagesspiegel (Germany)

“A truly great novel!”—ZDF Aspekte (Germany)

“Seethaler brings the lost souls of the city of Vienna to life.”—ZDF Mittagsmagazin (Germany)

“One doesn’t need to read Robert Seethaler to understand that failure is often life’s central experience. But you enjoy reading about it in Seethaler more than with any other writer,because he is so carefully, loving, and doesn’t take detours or make excuses.”—Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany)

“Seethaler writes with so much empathy. He has mastered the art of telling big stories about small lives.”—dpa (Germany)

“Seethaler has a special talent for portraying lives through their pure essence. This is a novel about survival, love, strength and death.”—NDR Kultur (Germany)

“Tells the story of life as a constant process of growth and decay.”—ORF Ex Libris (Austria)

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