THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer’s moving and addictive masterpiece of European identity, nostalgia and the end of an era.
‘A masterpiece: grandiose style, brilliant and rich. It will defy the ages’ Trouw (The Netherlands)
‘The love of my life lives in my past. That is, despite the alliteration, a terrible sentence to write. I do not want to come to the conclusion that, as it is the case for the hotel where I am staying and the continent after which it is named, the best time is behind me and that I have little more to expect from the future than to live on my past.’
A writer takes residence in the illustrious but decaying Grand Hotel Europa, to think about where things went wrong with Clio, with whom he fell in love in Genoa and moved to Venice. He reconstructs a compelling story of love in times of mass tourism, about their trips to Malta, Palmaria, Portovenere and the Cinque Terre and their thrilling search for the last painting of Caravaggio. Meanwhile, he becomes fascinated by the mysteries of Grand Hotel Europe and gets more and more involved with the memorable characters who inhabit it, and who seem to come from a more elegant time. All the while, globalisation seems to be grabbing hold even on this place frozen in time.
Grand Hotel Europa is Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer’s masterly novel on the old continent, where so much history resides that there is no place left for a future and where the most realistic future perspectives are offered in the form of exploiting the past in the shape of tourism.
© 2022 Fourth Estate (Ljudbok): 9780008375409
Översättare: Michele Hutchison
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 28 april 2022
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer’s moving and addictive masterpiece of European identity, nostalgia and the end of an era.
‘A masterpiece: grandiose style, brilliant and rich. It will defy the ages’ Trouw (The Netherlands)
‘The love of my life lives in my past. That is, despite the alliteration, a terrible sentence to write. I do not want to come to the conclusion that, as it is the case for the hotel where I am staying and the continent after which it is named, the best time is behind me and that I have little more to expect from the future than to live on my past.’
A writer takes residence in the illustrious but decaying Grand Hotel Europa, to think about where things went wrong with Clio, with whom he fell in love in Genoa and moved to Venice. He reconstructs a compelling story of love in times of mass tourism, about their trips to Malta, Palmaria, Portovenere and the Cinque Terre and their thrilling search for the last painting of Caravaggio. Meanwhile, he becomes fascinated by the mysteries of Grand Hotel Europe and gets more and more involved with the memorable characters who inhabit it, and who seem to come from a more elegant time. All the while, globalisation seems to be grabbing hold even on this place frozen in time.
Grand Hotel Europa is Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer’s masterly novel on the old continent, where so much history resides that there is no place left for a future and where the most realistic future perspectives are offered in the form of exploiting the past in the shape of tourism.
© 2022 Fourth Estate (Ljudbok): 9780008375409
Översättare: Michele Hutchison
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 28 april 2022
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Jenny
21 juni 2023
Denna är otrolig och jag förstår inte varför den inte pratas om mer. Eller har översatts till svenska. Bra inläsning dessutom. Boken är så mycket: en kritisk av konstvärlden, av samtidens sätt att resa och den handlar om en skattjakt, om kärlek och att försöka visa vem man är för någon man älskar, bland så mycket mer. Den är smart, rolig och nästan plump ibland samt har gett mig så mycket att tänka på. Lyssningstips! Den är ju många timmar av gott historieberättande.
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14 sep. 2022
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