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Grand Hotel Europa
Grand Hotel Europa
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer (born 1968)
Translated by Michele Hutchison
English editions
In EnglishGrand Hotel Europa
4th Estate · United Kingdom · 2023 · Paperback · 560 pages
Grand Hotel Europa
Farrar, Straus and Giroux · United States · June 2022 · Hardcover · 551 pages
Grand Hotel Europa
4th Estate · United Kingdom · 2022 · 551 pages
Grand Hotel Europa
Picador · United States · 2023 · Paperback · 560 pages
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Ilja, a writer, takes a room in the faded splendour of the Grand Hotel Europa to understand why his love affair with Clio collapsed. An Italian art historian, she met him in Genoa and later the pair settled in Venice. Looking back, he relives their romance amid crowds of tourists, their travels to Malta, the Ligurian coast and the islands nearby, and their quest for the final canvas Caravaggio painted, while a Dutch TV crew wants him for a documentary on tourism. Meanwhile the hotel's secrets and its eccentric long-term guests, relics of a more refined era, draw him in.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 546 pages in the original
- Genres
- Love (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy, Malta
- First published
- 2018 by De Arbeiderspers
- Author's age
- 50 when first published
- ISBN
9789029526227 (original)
9780374165901 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States)
9780008375379 (4th Estate, United Kingdom)
9780008375416 (4th Estate, United Kingdom)
9781250872845 (Picador, United States)
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