The Seaside Café Metropolis
Antanas Sileika is a born storyteller He turns the postwar Vilnius caf of the title with the Soviet menace all around it and even in it into an oasis of civility good food good music good wit good poetry and above allhopehope for better days to come Stories flow through the caf even if they are sad or tragic like a cleansing river The author succeeds in making us want both to visit and to flee his fictional establishment in equal measure that alone is an achievement to be enjoyed and celebrated| Alllitup.ca
