In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question "Why love?" It tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a psudonym. When her life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, however, Edith flees to Switzerland, where the quiet luxury of the Hotel du Lac promises to resore her to her senses. But instead of peace and rest, Edith finds herself sequestered at the hotel with an assortment of love’s casualties and exiles. She also attracts the attention of a worldly man determined to release her unused capacity for mischief and pleasure. Beautifully observed, witheringly funny, Hotel du Lac is Brookner at her most stylish and potently subversive.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Vintage International. Random House
ISBN: 9780679759324
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 184
Tiempo de lectura:
3h 44m
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 31/03/1999
Año de edición: 1995
Plaza de edición: Ee.uu
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Anita Brookner
(Londres, 1928) Dedicada inicialmente a la historia del arte —especialidad en la que publicó estudios sobre Watteau, Greuze y Jacques-Louis David— en 1988 abandonó su puesto de lectora de historia del arte en la Universidad de Londres para dedicarse exclusivamente a la literatura. Con su novela Hôtel du Lac (1984) obtuvo el Premio Booker.