EAN: 9781590179673

GRAND HOTEL - VICKI BAUM KARTONIERT (TB)

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. Herr
Preysing also checks in  the director of a family firm that isn't as flourishing as it appears
who would never imagine that Kringelein  his underling  a timorous petty clerk he's bullied for
years  has also come to Berlin  determined to live at last now that he's received a medical
death sentence. All these characters and more  with all their secrets and aspirations  come
together and come alive in the pages of Baum's delicious and disturbing masterpiece.

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