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During the breakdown of an unhappy marriage, writer Joanna Walsh got a job as a hotel reviewer, and began to gravitate towards places designed as alternatives to home. Luxury, sex, power, anonymity, privacy…hotels are where our desires go on holiday, but also places where our desires are shaped by the hard realities of the marketplace. Part memoir and part meditation, this book visits a series of rooms, suites, hallways, and lobbies—the spaces and things that make up these modern sites of gathering and alienation, hotels.

Questa è la storia di cinque persone che, presto, si troveranno insieme. Alexander Norberg, il celebre direttore d'orchestra, coinvolgerà nel suo concerto d'addio Rebecca Lunardi, una donna complicata e cinica ormai al termine della propria carriera, e Marcel Vanut, un ragazzetto prigioniero di genitori avidi che lucrano sull'unicità della sua voce senza permettergli mai alcuno svago.

Das "Grand Hotel" im Berlin der 20er Jahre. In dieser eleganten Kulisse kreuzen sich die Wege einer Hand voll unterschiedlicher Charaktere: eine alternde russische Ballerina, ein adeliger Dieb, ein todkranker Buchhalter, ein bankrotter Unternehmer und eine lebenslustige Sekretärin. Ihre Schicksale verstricken sich, und am Ende verlässt niemand das "Grand Hotel" als der Mensch, der er vorher war.