THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'How I loved this book . . .Seethaler is in his very own league' Elizabeth StroutIt is 1966, and Robert Simon has just fulfilled his dream by taking over a cafe 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 ...