Le café sans nom

Synopsis of Le café sans nom

«Le café sans nom» is the novel by Robert Seethaler, published by Folio in paperback (272 pages, in French).

Vienna, 1966. Robert Simon opens a café in a working-class district to start over. The place soon becomes a meeting point for varied characters seeking company and belonging in an Austria still recovering from the Second World War. The novel follows the transformation of a nameless establishment into a place full of life and human relationships.

Translation from German into French by Élisabeth Landes and Herbert Wolf; this Folio edition was published on 9 January 2025.

For readers of contemporary literary fiction, with an interest in period portraits and the lives of ordinary characters.