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Hotel Savoy

Hotel Savoy

by Joseph Roth (Author), John Hoare (Translator)

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    Paperback 2000

    $9.85
Synopsis

' A pity, says Abel Glanz, it was a good hotel. ' Gabriel Dan is a former soldier in the Austrian Army who returns from a Siberian prison camp some time after the First World War. He arrives in an unnamed eastern town at the gates of Europe and lodges in the huge Hotel Savoy. The owner is absent, and the guests are odd, deranged, longing for salvation, dreaming of a release from the unbearable tensions of their lives. A former citizen who has made his fortune in the USA is rumoured to be on his way home - and murder and chaos ensue. Written in 1923, Hotel Savoy is a dark, witty parable of Europe in the shadow of fascism and war: this is Roth at his best.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 133
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 28 Jun 2000
ISBN 10: 1862073775
ISBN 13: 9781862073777
Book Overview: Gabriel Dan is a former soldier in the Austrian Army who returns from a Siberian prison camp some time after the First World War. He arrives in an unnamed town and lodges at the Hotel Savoy. The owner is absent, the guests are deranged and murder and chaos ensue.

Author Bio
Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was the great elegist of the cosmopolitan, tolerant and doomed Central European culture that flourished in the dying days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Born into a Jewish family in Galicia, on the eastern edge of the empire, he was a prolific political journalist and novelist. On Hitler's assumption of power, he was obliged to leave Germany and he died in poverty in Paris. His novels include What I Saw, The Legend of the Holy Drinker, Right and Left, The Emperor's Tomb, The String of Pearls and The Radetzky March, all published by Granta Books.