Showing results for "The 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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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?

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Newlyweds Keith and Kit Collins can hardly believe their luck when the general manager of the iconic, opulent Pink Hotel invites them to come for a luxurious stay as a bid to hire Keith. Kit loves their small-town life, but Keith has always wanted more, and the glittering, lily-scented lobby makes him feel right at home. Soon after their arrival, wildfires sweep through the surrounding mountains and Los Angeles becomes a pressure cooker, with riots breaking out across the city amid rolling blackouts.

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.

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...

Un écrivain néerlandais pose ses valises au Grand Hotel Europa, un palace à la splendeur délabrée. Il vient de rompre avec son grand amour, Clio, historienne de l’art passionnée, et souhaite coucher sur le papier leur tumultueuse histoire. Si l’écriture est un remède à sa désolation, les autres clients et le personnel de l’hôtel le sont tout autant.

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...