The Seaside Café Metropolis
Autor Antanas Sileikaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 sep 2025
- Marooned in Soviet Lithuania in 1958 with his communist mother, a Canadian expatriate strives to launch a fashionable bohemian restaurant while the KGB listens in from the basement.
- Pitched as Grand Budapest Hotel meets A Gentleman in Moscow.
- Inspired by the book behind the opera La Bohème, European café culture, and true history — including an appearance by Jean-Paul Sartre.
- Each chapter opens with a narratively relevant, restaurant-quality recipe, such as recipes for apple compote, chicken Kiev, and Napoleon cake.
- In this Cold War comic novel, characters scramble to make rich lives under a repressive regime and find consolation through good food, humour, and warm friendships.
- Antanas Sileika was Canadian Prime Minister Mulroney’s translator to the Lithuanian president.
- In 1975, Antanas Sileika stayed at the real-life café that inspired this novel, dined on its signature dish, chicken Kiev, while the KGB listened in from a microphone in the bread basket.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781770868106
ISBN-10: 1770868100
Pagini: 294
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: CORMORANT BOOKS
Colecția Cormorant Books
Locul publicării:Toronto, Canada
ISBN-10: 1770868100
Pagini: 294
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: CORMORANT BOOKS
Colecția Cormorant Books
Locul publicării:Toronto, Canada
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Recenzii
“Antanas Sileika has invented a new genre: the culinary picaresque. Throw in the Cold War, dissident shenanigans, an ideologue mother, knife-fighting love story, iron curtain Bohemians, and more than half a dozen traditional and innovative Lithuanian recipes and you get a sense of the many flavors Sileika blends to perfection in this sad, funny, insightful, propulsive banquet of a novel. This is a rare dish served by a master chef.”
“A delicious peek into the world of spies, artists and food at the fringes of the Soviet Union. Sileika’s prose is wry and wise, and conjures up a place and time that glimmers like a bittersweet memory.”
“Emmet Argentine is a Canadian restaurateur tapped to open a different kind of dining spot in Khruschev era Lithuania. His flair for food service in a time when Soviet sensibilities are perhaps thawing just a bit make for a comic novel with culinary know how, dry wit and a smart take on that which can bring disparate peoples together. Garty Shteyngart has make a career covering this beat, but Antanas Sileika does it as well or better. This was a delight, and one of my favourites for the year.”
“This novel was so darkly hilarious that I spent the whole time reading it and chuckling. It was wildly entertaining and Sileika’s ability for such sly, dark humour is fantastic.”
“A celebration of community, solidarity, and the transformative power of imagination.”
“Hundreds of kilometres from the nearest shore, the fictionalized Seaside Café Metropolis brings to mind the Rick’s of Casablanca combined with the Tropicana of I Love Lucy. ... In a place of scarcity, the novel asks, how does one reimagine ‘working man’s food’ like Riga sprats or buckwheat groats? How does one gather ingredients for elevated cuisine?”
“The Cold War was a nightmare, but dreams were irrepressible. Forging connections could help you find a better hospital for a friend to die in, or a way back home. Sileika’s novel spills the beans on our human condition, on ‘who we are, what we love, and what we dream of.’”
“A delicious peek into the world of spies, artists and food at the fringes of the Soviet Union. Sileika’s prose is wry and wise, and conjures up a place and time that glimmers like a bittersweet memory.”
“Emmet Argentine is a Canadian restaurateur tapped to open a different kind of dining spot in Khruschev era Lithuania. His flair for food service in a time when Soviet sensibilities are perhaps thawing just a bit make for a comic novel with culinary know how, dry wit and a smart take on that which can bring disparate peoples together. Garty Shteyngart has make a career covering this beat, but Antanas Sileika does it as well or better. This was a delight, and one of my favourites for the year.”
“This novel was so darkly hilarious that I spent the whole time reading it and chuckling. It was wildly entertaining and Sileika’s ability for such sly, dark humour is fantastic.”
“A celebration of community, solidarity, and the transformative power of imagination.”
“Hundreds of kilometres from the nearest shore, the fictionalized Seaside Café Metropolis brings to mind the Rick’s of Casablanca combined with the Tropicana of I Love Lucy. ... In a place of scarcity, the novel asks, how does one reimagine ‘working man’s food’ like Riga sprats or buckwheat groats? How does one gather ingredients for elevated cuisine?”
“The Cold War was a nightmare, but dreams were irrepressible. Forging connections could help you find a better hospital for a friend to die in, or a way back home. Sileika’s novel spills the beans on our human condition, on ‘who we are, what we love, and what we dream of.’”