Hotel Grand

A literary blog run by one Julio is suddenly visited by an uninvited guest calling himself Condoleezo, who starts leaving instalments of his novel in the comments. The bloggers' witty quarrel over the manuscript frames its story: 25-year-old Filip searches for traces of his past in the Hotel Grand of an unnamed Dalmatian town, where his father Dominik once ran a brothel. As a boy he grew up among Ukrainian prostitutes, protective parents and the security guard Martin, and met the underworld and its ties to politics. It is less a story of adolescence than of the trauma of losing a father.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

258 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Family, Crime (assigned by AI)

Set in

Croatia

First published

2008 by Algoritam

Author's age

45 when first published

ISBN

9789532207972 (original)