Showing results for "Hotel" in Literary Fiction

It’s been 10 years since a group of college friends made a vow: that the first to get rich would rent a boat and invite the others on a cruise. Now, the friends find themselves marooned at a luxurious hotel on the Amalfi Coast in Italy. While their boat is being repaired, they can’t help but observe the daily routine of a fellow hotel guest - a mysterious, white-bearded stranger who sits on the veranda each night and smokes one cigarette, sometimes two.

At the outset of the 2008 financial crisis, Em has a dull marketing job generating reports of vague utility while she anxiously awaits news of her sister, Ad, who has gone missing - again. Confronted by unfathomable loss and recovery, Em begins to see how madness permeates everything around her. Em’s story is layered with other perspectives and voices.

À l'origine de la série Netflix Hotel Portofino. L'hôtel Portofino n'est ouvert que depuis quelques semaines, que déjà les ennuis s'accumulent pour Bella Ainsworth, sa propriétaire. Les hôtes qu'elle reçoit sont des habitués de la haute société anglaise, et sont donc exigeants et difficiles à satisfaire. Et Bella est la cible d'un politicien local corrompu, alors que l'Italie s'enfonce de plus en plus dans l'ère de Benito Mussolini. Pire encore, son mariage est en difficulté, et ses enfants peinent à se remettre des dégâts de la Grande Guerre.

Januar 1942. Für June Porter Hudson ist die Führung des Avalon und seines ihm treuen Personals kein Beruf, sondern Berufung. Umgeben von der magischen Einsamkeit der Appalachen, steht das legendäre Grand Hotel für Luxus, Raffinesse und für sein besonderes Heilwasser. Doch als die Wirrungen des Krieges in seine Welt einbrechen, muss June sich einer harten Prüfung stellen, denn nur sie kennt die Kräfte, die aus den Quellen hinter den Fassaden wirken. Sind das Hotel und die ihm verschriebenen Menschen zu retten und eine Katastrophe aufzuhalten?

National Bestseller ONE OF FALL'S MOST ANTICIPATED READS—New York Times, Vulture, BookPage, Kirkus Reviews, and more From the New York Times bestselling author and advice columnist, a poignant and funny debut novel about the residents of a women’s hotel in 1960s New York City. The...

“Deeply moving, compulsively readable, Hotel Cuba chronicles the early twentieth century immigrant experience with a profound understanding and crackling urgency I’ve not previously encountered. I could not put it down and I could not stop thinking about it long after I’d reached its...

Wien, Ende der Achtzigerjahre: Angelika Moser, aufgewachsen im Gemeindebau als Tochter der Hausbesorgerin, verbringt ihre Freizeit durch das Nachtleben tanzend. Gleichzeitig liebt sie ihren Job in einer für sie neuen, eleganten Welt: Als Buchhalterin im Grand Hotel Frohner, das von Wiener Originalen und Gästen von überallher bevölkert wird, lässt sie sich auf zweifelhafte Zahlenspiele ein, um das Etablissement zu retten. Plötzlich mit kleinem Kind auf sich allein gestellt, nimmt Angelika den Kampf um ein gutes Leben auf und beginnt, Rechnungen zu manipulieren.

Londres, Nochevieja de 1959. Todo el mundo celebra el cambio de década. Los corchos de las botellas de champán y el entrechocar de las copas resuenan en los salones del lujoso hotel Flanagans. Los invitados brindan por la adorada dueña del hotel, Linda Lansing, que ha estado a cargo del...

From the author of Jerusalem Maiden comes a mesmerizing, thought-provoking novel that tells the riveting story of an American woman—the daughter of Holocaust survivors—who travels to Russia shortly after the fall of communism, and finds herself embroiled in a perilous mafia conspiracy that...

These masterpieces (along with several previously uncollected stories) are available in one volume, which presents an indelible collective portrait of an unsuspected New York and its odder citizens - as depicted by one of the great writers of this or any other time.

Karen Tei Yamashita has been honored with the American Book Award and Janet Heidinger Kafka Award. A stunning portrait of Asian Americans in 1960s and ’70s San Francisco, I Hotel is a remarkable collection of 10 related novellas. Touching on such topics as Japanese internment camps and the Marcos dictatorship, the book presents readers with characters of rich design.

Eine verbotene Liebesgeschichte zu Zeiten des Krieges. Hamburg, 1922: Luise hat sich im Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten von der Wäscherin zur stellvertretenden Hausdame hochgearbeitet. Tatkräftig unterstützt sie Fritz Haerlin. Der Sohn des alten Hotelgründers hat große Pläne für das Grandhotel, doch bald schon zwingen die neuen Machthaber ihn zu schweren Entscheidungen. Als fast alle männlichen Angestellten erneut einberufen werden und auch Fritz Haerlin an die Front muss, hält Luise das Hotel am Laufen und scheut kein Risiko, sich für die jüdischen Angestellten einzusetzen.

I en dansk provinsby ligger det forfaldne "Krenckers Hotel", som for længst har lagt sin storhedstid bag sig. Den nuværende ejer, Kai Marcus, må se fallitten i øjnene, samtidig med at hans hustru, Elin, ligger for døden. Familiemedlemmerne samler sig om parret og deres tre børn, men bag de endnu levende står erindringen om familiens overhoved - den gamle fru Deborah Krencker - som de på hver deres måde forsøger at fortrænge. Inge Haagensen (1919-1983) var en dansk forfatter.

The irrepressible Russell "Buffy" Buffery has upped sticks from London and moved to Knockton, Powys, to a B&B inherited from an old flame. With his future spread before him, and a string of failed marriages behind him, Buffy decides it's time for a new challenge. Meanwhile: Harold's wife has run off with a younger woman leaving him alone with his as-yet-unwritten novel narrated by Mary Pickford's cat; Amy's weedy boyfriend has turned out to be not so needy after all; and Andy's partner's corset-and-suspender-clad attempts at seduction are having anything but the desired effect.

Dominic Smith’s The Electric Hotel winds through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jersey - America’s first movie town - and on the battlefields of Belgium during World War I. A sweeping work of historical fiction, it shimmers between past and present as it tells the story of the rise and fall of a prodigious film studio and one man’s doomed obsession with all that passes in front of the viewfinder.

Thirty-one years after workers first broke ground, the magnificent Hotel Neversink in the Catskills finally opens to the public. Then a young boy disappears. This mysterious vanishing - and the ones that follow - will brand the lives of three generations. At the root of it all is Asher Sikorsky, the ambitious and ruthless patriarch whose purchase of the hotel in 1931 set a haunting legacy into motion.

La Residencia Creativa interZona consiste en ofrecer a los autores de la editorial un lugar inspirador para trabajar; en brindarles aliento, un espacio y un tiempo -una interzona- dedicados a la escritura, fuera de la rutina y sin las preocupaciones de lo cotidiano. Una herencia inesperada que...

Un crítico de hoteles espía por error una escena extraña en la habitación contigua: la pareja vecina interpreta sin ganas un curioso ritual erótico que dirige una mujer que da muchas órdenes, pero pocas respuestas. Intrigado, el crítico se decide a encontrar a esa enigmática mujer y para ello se embarca en una travesía de final incierto. De ciudad en ciudad, de hotel en hotel, de alcoba en alcoba, acabará descubriendo que en el fondo todas las persecuciones son huidas disfrazadas y que moverse mucho no basta para sentir que se avanza...

A brooding fugitive hides out in a crumbling hotel that was once filled with celebrities enjoying the successes of postwar America. He is a racist with a criminal past, an anti-hero who reflects on the ruins of the South and simultaneously on the life of a German performance artist called “Jupp”. The fictional Jupp is a thinly-veiled cipher for the late real-life German artist, Joseph Beuys.

In this powerful novel of love and family, a doctor named Paris follows a nurse to a country on the brink of civil war. When a confrontation does break out, they are swept up by rebel forces and separated. The nurse, Helen, is pregnant; she escapes, but Paris is left behind, imprisoned by rebels as war rages. A narrative of brutal power about parental bonds, forgiveness, and identity, The Colonial Hotel recasts for the 21st century the ancient story of Paris, Helen, and Oenone.