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.
