ISBN: 0140147470
Godina izdanja: 2016
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Anita Brookner - Hotel Du Lac
Penguin, 2016
184 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single. But among the pampered women and minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville, and her chance to escape from a life of humiliating spinsterhood is renewed ...Winner of the Booker Prize in 1984, `Hotel du Lac` was described by `The Times` as `A smashing love story. It is very romantic. It is also humorous, witty, touching and formidably clever`.

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • When romance writer Edith Hope’s life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, she flees to Switzerland, where the quiet luxury of the Hotel du Lac promises to restore her to her senses.

`Brookner`s most absorbing novel ... wryly realistic ... graceful and attractive.` —Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review

But instead of peace and rest, Edith finds herself sequestered at the hotel with an assortment of love`s casualties and exiles. She also attracts the attention of a worldly man determined to release her unused capacity for mischief and pleasure. Beautifully observed, witheringly funny, Hotel du Lac is Brookner at her most stylish and potently subversive.

In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question `Why love?`


Fiction, Classics, 0140147470