The White Hotel
D.M. Thomas
274 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0140231730
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Language: English
Publish: 746866800000
ClassicsFantasyFictionHistoricalHistorical FictionHolocaustLiterary FictionLiteratureNovelsPsychology
The million copy, Booker Prize finalist, besteller
“To describe this novel as spine-tingling in its indescribable poetic effect would be to trivialize its profoundly tragic theme. Say then that it is heart-stunning.”— The New York Times
It is a dream of electrifying eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud. It is a horrifying yet restrained narrative of the Holocaust. It is a searing vision of the wounds of the twentieth century, and an attempt to heal them. Interweaving poetry and case history, fantasy and historical truth-telling, The White Hotel is a modern classic of enduring emotional power that attempts nothing less than to reconcile the notion of individual destiny with that of historical fate.