Le café sans nom

Synopsis of Le café sans nom

«Le café sans nom» is the historical novel by Robert Seethaler, published by Sabine Wespieser Éditeur in paperback (248 pages, in French).

In 1966 Vienna, Robert Simon, a day labourer at the Carmelite market, restores an abandoned café and turns it into a meeting point. Regular customers share hopes, memories and postwar wounds, while the city is reborn and the protagonist gives his life a new direction.

French version translated from the German (Austria) by Élisabeth Landes and Herbert Wolf; original title: «Das Café ohne Namen».

For readers of historical and literary fiction who appreciate portraits of humble characters and urban settings.