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 café 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 café, and to Robert's dream.

A story of the hopes, kindnesses and everyday heroism of one community, The Café 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.

"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" - * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung *