Grand Hotel

Grand Hotel

Vicki Baum

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. 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.

Dimensions
18 x 11 cm
Pages
272
Publisher
Pan Books, London, 1948.
 
Latin alphabet. Paperback.
Language: English.

One copy is available

Condition:Used, good condition (visible signs of use)
Damages or inconvenience notice:
  • Slight damage to the cover
  • A message of a personal nature
  • Yellowed pages
 

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