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  • Location: Vienna

The Cafe With No Name

The Cafe With No Name

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1966: Welcome to the Cafe with No Name but plenty of character…

  • ISBN: 978-1837260140
  • Translator: Katy Derbyshire
  • Genre: Fiction, Translated Fictioin

What you need to know before your trail

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.

Travel Guide

Vienna

Vienna in the 1960s is just wonderfully evocative!

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. Enlivened by these promises, Robert refurbishes the café, painting the walls, varnishing the furniture, and polishing the stove plates. Rewarding Robert’s efforts and in 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. As the city is transformed, Robert’s cafe becomes at once a place of refuge and one from which to observe and rejoice.

BookTrail Boarding Pass: The Café with No Name

Destination/location: Vienna   Author/guide:  Robert Seethaler   Departure Time: 1966

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