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Hope springs eternal: The Café with No Name, by Robert Seethaler, reviewed

It’s Vienna, 1966, and a young labourer casts a speculative eye on a ramshackle café in the corner of the Karmelitermarkt, daring to restore it and improve his lot

Lee Langley
Robert Seethaler. 
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