num_pages: 140
description: Colin and Mary are a couple whose intimacy knows no bounds. Away on a holiday together in a nameless city, they get lost one evening in a labyrinth of streets and canals. They happen upon Robert, a stranger with a dark history, who takes them to a bar and ushers them down into a subterranean land of violence and obsession.
language: English
title: The Comfort of Strangers
titlecomplete: The Comfort of Strangers
genres: British Literature, Italy, Novels, Suspense, Thriller, 20th Century, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 17788
places: Venice, London, England
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Booker Prize
publisher: Vintage