Robert Seethaler

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'How I loved this book . . . Seethaler is in his very own league' Elizabeth Strout 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. A story of the hopes, kindnesses and everyday heroism of one community, The Café with No Name has charmed millions of European readers. It is an unforgettable novel about how we carry each other through good and bad times, and how even the most ordinary life is, in its own way, quite extraordinary.

Etsitkö jännitystä, uusia näkökulmia tai rentouttavaa lukuelämystä? Tutustu kirjakategorioihimme ja löydä seuraava suosikkikirjasi.

The international bestselling author of A Whole Life, The Tobacconist and The Café with No Name returns with a moving portrait of an artist at the end of his life, aboard a ship for his final journey from New York to Europe

The International Number One Bestseller set in 1960s Vienna now in paperback

Fjellene rundt ham hadde stått der i tusenvis av år, uforanderlige og tause vitner til menneskenes strev. Han hadde sett snøen falle og smelte, elvene fryse til is og igjen bryte seg fri. Alt var i bevegelse, og likevel var alt det samme. Han trakk pusten dypt og kjente den skarpe fjelluften fylle lungene. Det var dette som var livet – å være til stede, å akseptere det som kom, og å gå videre, uansett hva som ventet. Andreas Egger lever nesten hele sitt liv i en liten alpelandsby i Østerrike. Han er en nøysom og hardtarbeidende mann av få ord, som lever enkelt og tilbaketrukket fra landsbyens etablerte liv. Modernitetens inntog bringer ikke bare strøm til dalen, men også Marie. Et helt liv er en stillfaren og rørende fortelling om en vanlig mann og et enkelt liv, en fortelling om de øyeblikkene, små som store, som gjør oss til dem vi er.

A NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLERA vibrant tale of love, companionship, and renewal set against the transformations of 1960s Vienna. Summer 1966. Robert Simon is in his early thirties and has a dream. Raised in a home for war orphans, Robert has nonetheless grown into a warm-hearted, hard-working, and determined man. When the former owners of the corner café in the Carmelite market square shutter the business, Robert sees that the chance to realize his dream has arrived. The place, dark and dilapidated, is in a poor neighborhood of the Austrian capital, but 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 and, rewarding him for his efforts and 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 café becomes at once a place of refuge and one from which to observe, mourn, and rejoice. Combining the enchantment of warm prose with tender humor, Robert Seethaler has written a charming parable of human existence animated by unforgettable characters and a kaleidoscope of human stories.

WELCOME TO THE HOTEL POETRY. Ein Hotel, viele Fenster. In jedem Zimmer eine per-s nliche Geschichte, verborgen oder durchs Fenster zu beobachten. Fl chtige Begegnungen oder bleibende Ein-dr cke. Hinter jeder T r ein Mensch mit seinem Leben, seinen Gef hlen, seinen N ten. Einiges wird sichtbar, aber so manches bleibt geheimnisvoll im Dunkeln. Menschen, so unterschiedlich wie die Autorinnen und Autoren dieser Anthologie, und doch vereint unter dem Dach eines Hotels, versinnbildlicht in diesem Buch. Eine Anthologie zeitgen ssischer Poesie. Gedichte, Erz hlungen und Gedanken. Mit Robert Seethaler, Daniel Glattauer, Ronja von R nne, Charles Lewinsky, Clara Maria Bagus, Friedrich Ani, Mirna Funk, Max K ng, Hatice Aky n, Jo Sch ck, Monika Rinck, Ilma Rakusa, Claas Engels, Katharina H ftmann Ciobo- taru, Thomas Friedmann, Robert Prosser, Simone Lappert, Dan Shambicco, Elisa Shua Dusapin, Michael Fehr, Yari Bernasconi, Fritz Hendrick Melle, Finn Holitzka, Alexander Broicher und Ariadne von Schirach. *Die beiden vorliegenden Editionen sind inhaltsgleich*

Ein Café und seine Menschen. Ein Mann, der seiner Sehnsucht folgt. Robert Seethalers neuer Roman. Wien im Jahr 1966. Robert Simon verdient sein Brot als Gelegenheitsarbeiter auf dem Karmelitermarkt. Er ist zufrieden mit seinem Leben, doch zwanzig Jahre nach Ende des Krieges hat sich die Stadt aus ihren Trümmern erhoben. Überall wächst das Neue, und auch Simon lässt sich mitreißen. Er pachtet eine Gastwirtschaft und eröffnet sein eigenes Café. Das Angebot ist überschaubar, und genau genommen ist es gar kein richtiges Café, doch die Menschen aus dem Viertel kommen, und sie bringen ihre Geschichten mit – von der Sehnsucht, vom Verlust, vom unverhofften Glück. Sie kommen auf der Suche nach Gesellschaft, manche hoffen sogar auf die Liebe, und während die Stadt um sie herum erwacht, verwandelt sich auch Simons eigenes Leben.

April 1911. Gustav Mahler er den største dirigenten og musikeren i verden, og har feiret store suksesser i New York. Nå er den dødssyke komponisten på vei hjem til Europa med dampskipet «Amerika». Mahler har smerter, han har alltid hatt smerter, men han har trosset en kropp som prøver å fortære seg selv. Nå sitter han på soldekket mens dekksgutten pusler rundt ham, og mimrer tilbake til de siste årene, til somrene i fjellet, til datteren Marias død. Og han tenker på datteren Anna, som sitter under dekk og spiser frokost. Og på Alma, hans livs kjærlighet, som gjør ham gal - og som han for lengst har mistet. Det er Mahlers siste reise. Siste sats er en gripende roman om kunstneren som en gammel mann som ser tilbake på livet sitt i krystallklare øyeblikk av skjønnhet, melankoli og anger.

Andra romanen på Ersatz av den österrikiske stjärnförfattarenVad blir kvar av ett liv? En historia eller minnet av ett ögonblick, en särskild känsla? Om de döda kunde blicka tillbaka på sina liv, vad skulle de berätta då? En man föddes, blev spelberoende och dog. En annan når insikt om ett livsavgörande ögonblick. En kvinna minns hur hennes man höll hennes hand ett helt liv. En annan hade sextiosju män, men älskade bara en. I Robert Seethalers roman fogas vitt skilda livshistorier samman till en berättelse om människorna i en småstad. Tidigare utgivet på Ersatz: Sista satsen (2021) Robert Seethaler, född i Wien 1966, är skådespelare och författare. Hans böcker har vunnit många priser och Ein Ganzes Leben (Ett helt liv) hamnade på korta listan för International Booker Prize 2016.

If the dead could speak, what would they say to the living? From their graves in the field, the oldest part of Paulstadt’s cemetery, the town’s late inhabitants tell stories from their lives. Some recall just a moment, perhaps the one in which they left this world, perhaps the one that they now realize shaped their life for ever. Some remember all the people they’ve been with, or the only person they ever loved. These voices together – young, old, rich, poor – build a picture of a community, as viewed from below ground instead of from above. The streets of the small, sleepy provincial town of Paulstadt are given shape and meaning by those who lived, loved, worked, mourned and died there. From the author of the Booker International-shortlisted A Whole Life, Robert Seethaler’s The Field is about what happens at the end. It is a book of human lives – each one different, yet connected to countless others – that ultimately shows how life, for all its fleetingness, still has meaning.