The international bestselling author of A Whole Life, The Tobacconist and The Cafe 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.
Robert Seethaler was born in Vienna in 1966 and is the author of several novels including A Whole Life, which was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, The Tobacconist, which was a number one German bestseller and The Café with No Name, which also topped the German charts with more than half a million copies sold. HIs works have been translated into over 40 languages.