Showing results for "The Hotel" in World Literature

Something magical is just what I’ve been looking for. I’ve never felt good enough amongst my husband’s richer friends, but a Valentine’s weekend in a stunning new hotel in Finnish Lapland is our chance to shine. The staff promise perfection by recreating our fondest memories—the happiest moments of our lives.

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.

“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...

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...

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.

After a childhood filled with heartbreak, Irene, a talented artist, finds herself in a small Central American village where she checks into a beautiful but decaying lakefront hotel called La Llorona at the base of a volcano.

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.

Inspired by released American hostages, Hotel Oubliette is a darkly comedic play that explores what happens when two emotionally disconnected men are chained to a post with an endless amount of time stretching before them.

Если в твоей жизни начинаются странности, то не всегда это просто странности. Иногда это предвестники больших перемен. И если вдруг тебе начинает мерещиться сигнал SOS в обычных звуках вокруг, стоит задуматься: мерещится ли? Или ты та, кто слышит призывы спасти чьи-то души? А потому тебе прямая дорога.... в управляющие отеля?

Hotel guest relations manager Jasmine, also known as a Love Alchemist, adores her job at the exclusive Spanish Love Hotel. She prides herself on helping guests meet their perfect match. But matchmaking is absolutely forbidden between staff. And so Jasmine must resist the attraction she feels every time she’s around delectable sous-chef, Alejandro. The problem is, she knows the feeling is mutual. But she cannot jeopardise her job or break the rules.