{"product_id":"the-cafe-with-no-name","title":"The Café With No Name","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eA New York Times Editors’ Choice \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA vibrant tale of love, companionship, and renewal set against the transformations of 1960s Vienna.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSummer 1966. Robert Simon is in his early thirties and has a dream. Raised in a home for war orphans, Robert has nonetheless grown into a warm-hearted, hard-working, and determined man. When the former owners of the corner café in the Carmelite market square shutter the business, Robert sees that the chance to realize his dream has arrived.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe place, dark and dilapidated, is in a poor neighborhood of the Austrian capital, but for some time now a new wind has been blowing, and the air is filled with an inexplicable energy and a desire for renewal. In the newspapers with which fishmongers wrap the char and trout from the Danube, one can read about great things to come, a bright future beginning to rise from the quagmire of the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEnlivened by these promises, Robert refurbishes the café and, rewarding him for his efforts and search of a congenial place to gather, talk, read, or just sit and be, customers arrive, bringing their stories of passions, friendships, abandonments, and bereavements. Some are in search of company, others long for love, or just a place where they can feel understood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the city is transformed, Robert’s café becomes at once a place of refuge and one from which to observe, mourn, and rejoice. Combining the enchantment of warm prose with tender humor, Robert Seethaler has written a charming parable of human existence animated by unforgettable characters and a kaleidoscope of human stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“How I loved this book! Filled with truth after truth, poignantly rendered and given to us with tender open-handedness.”—Elizabeth Strout, author of Olive Kitteridge\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe author \u003c\/strong\u003eRobert Seethaler was born in Vienna in 1966 and is the author of eight novels. In 2017 he was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize with A Whole Life (FSG, 2016). He also works as an actor, most recently in Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth. He lives in Berlin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Europa Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47385063948546,"sku":"9798889660644","price":36.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2228\/7429\/files\/seethalercafewithnonamepow.jpg?v=1771567747","url":"https:\/\/stlartsupply.mom\/en-ca\/products\/the-cafe-with-no-name","provider":"St. Louis Art Supply","version":"1.0","type":"link"}