About

At Mr B's they are absolutely delighted to welcome Austrian author Robert Seethaler on a rare visit to the UK to discuss his stunning new novel, The Café with No Name.

Robert Seethaler is the author of several novels including the International Booker shortlisted A Whole Life, as well as The Tobacconist and The Field, all of which have been huge Team B favourites.

Set in 1960s Vienna, The Café with No Name is an unforgettable novel about the hopes, kindnesses and everyday heroism of one community. It's 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.

Having already spent 44 weeks in the German book charts, and being an instant bestseller across Europe, The Café with No Name sees the welcome return of this much beloved author, and we can't wait to hear more from Robert himself.

About the book:

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.

'How I loved this book…Seethaler is in his very own league' – Elizabeth Strout

'Written with an understated and elegant restraint that is no less poignant and powerful for it' – Tan Twan Eng