Grand hotel
Baum, Vicki, 1888-19602016
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A grand hotel in the center of 1920s Berlin serves as a microcosm of the modern world in Vicki Baum's celebrated novel, a Weimar-era best seller that retains all its verve and luster today. Among the guests of the hotel is Doctor Otternschlag, a World War I veteran whose face has been sliced in half by a shell. Day after day he emerges to read the paper in the lobby, discreetly inquiring at the desk if the letter he's been awaiting for years has arrived. Then there is Grusinskaya, a great ballerina now fighting a losing battle not so much against age as against her fear of it, who may or may not be made for Gaigern, a sleek professional thief.
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Main title:
Grand hotel / Vicki Baum ; translated by Basil Creighton ; introduction by Noah Isenberg.
Author:
Baum, Vicki, 1888-1960, authorCreighton, Basil, translator
Work:
Imprint:
New York : New York Review Books, 2016.New York : New York Review Books, 2016.
Collation:
304 pages ; 21 cm.
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Notes:
Translated from the German.
ISBN:
9781590179673 (pbk)
Dewey class:
833.912
Language:
EnglishGerman
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BRN:
2355461