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Robert Seethaler was born in Vienna in 1966 and is the author of several novels including A Whole Life, which was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, and The Tobacconist, which was a number one German bestseller. Originally published in 2023, Seethaler's novel The Caf with No Name was an instant number one bestseller, spending 44 weeks on the bestseller list. His works have been translated into over 40 languages. Katy Derbyshire is a Berlin-based translator. She has translated works by Christa Wolf, Inka Parei and Clemens Meyer, most notably Meyer's novel Bricks and Mortar, which won the Straelener Prize for Translation. Meyer and Derbyshire have twice been longlisted for the International Booker Prize.
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 Rewarding . . . written with an understated and elegant restraint that is no less poignant and powerful for it -- TAN TWAN ENG Robert Seethaler has always created the epic from the ordinary . . . In The Café with No Name, 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 cosy 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 Café with No Name strikes with the force of life -- NICK ARVIN, author of MAD BOY Seethaler's story bursts with empathy in its portrayal of a found family. This is a winner * * Publisher's Weekly * * 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 -- FLORIAN BALKE * * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung * * Magnificent! Highly and unequivocally recommended -- FLORENCE NOIVILLE * * Le Monde * *
