The Café with No Name

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE

A tale of love, companionship, and renewal set against the transformations of 1960s Vienna.

“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

Robert Simon is in his early thirties in 1966, when the owners of the corner bar in the Carmelite market square of Vienna shutter the business. With the help of an ol...