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Author Pfeijffer, Ilja Leonard, 1968- author.

Title Grand Hotel Europa / Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer ; translated from the Dutch by Michele Hutchison.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

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Location Call No. Status
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  FIC PFEIJFFER    Check Shelf
Edition First American edition.
Description 551 pages ; 24 cm
Summary "A writer takes up residence in the stately but decaying Grand Hotel Europa in order to contemplate where things went wrong with Clio--an art historian and the love of his life. His recollections take him back to when they first met in Genoa, his wanton visits to her in Venice, and their dulcet trips to Malta, Palmaria, Portovenere, and the Cinque Terre in their thrilling search for the last painting made by Caravaggio. Meanwhile, he becomes fascinated by the mysteries of the Grand Hotel Europa and the memorably eccentric characters who inhabit it, all of whom seem to hail from a halcyon era. All the while, globalization is laying claim to even this place, where a sense of lost glory hangs sulkily in the air. Grand Hotel Europa is Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer's masterly novel of the old continent, where there's so much history that there hardly seems space left for a future. Cinematic, lyrical, and brimming with humor, this is a novel about the European condition, which like the staff and residents of the Grand Hotel Europa may have already seen its best days."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Hotels -- Europe, Western -- Fiction.
Globalization -- Fiction.
Authorship -- Fiction.
Authorship. (OCoLC)fst00822442
Globalization. (OCoLC)fst00943532
Hotels. (OCoLC)fst00961767
Western Europe. (OCoLC)fst01272478
Genre/Form Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742
Novels.
Added Author Hutchison, Michele, translator.
Added Title Grand Hotel Europa. English
ISBN 9780374165901 hardcover
0374165904 hardcover
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