“A beautifully crafted portrait of a sorrowful dreamer, a café, and the city that surrounds them. Robert Seethaler’s The Café With No Name is a quietly profound novel that captures the pulse of 1960s Vienna through the unassuming yet deeply felt life of Robert Simon... And yet, despite this melancholy, there is something enduringly beautiful in Simon’s world—a beauty found in the small things, in the warmth of a well-worn space, in the routine of polishing stove plates and wiping down counters, in the knowledge that, for a time, the café is a home to those who need it. In the end, The Café With No Name is less about a place than the people who lingered at its doorway, leaving behind only the faintest traces of their existence. Seethaler’s novel lingers like the scent of coffee in the air—warm, fleeting, and profoundly human.”
Read the full starred review in the Independent Book Review.
