"Robert Seethaler’s The Café with No Name has already become a #1 bestseller in Germany and has remained on the bestseller list for 40 weeks. Now released in this English translation, Seethaler’s beatific novel can be appreciated by a whole new constituency of readers."
"Not a whole lot happens in Seethaler’s novel. There is no particular climax. No thrilling action. It is a gentle book featuring a community that comes together around the daily life struggles of each of its characters, who come and go throughout these pages, living their own lives that intersect meaningfully with Simon’s nameless café. By the book’s end, Simon has found himself a carved-out little life with the found family of his customers. Despite the grand party at the book’s end, there are no grand revelations in The Café with No Name. Simply life, being what you make it, through all variety of circumstances, finding hope and community where you create it for yourself."
