num_pages: 274
description: The million copy, Booker Prize finalist, besteller“To describe this novel as spine-tingling in its indescribable poetic effect would be to trivialize its profoundly tragic theme. Say then that it is heart-stunning.”— The New York TimesIt is a dream of electrifying eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud. It is a horrifying yet restrained narrative of the Holocaust. It is a searing vision of the wounds of the twentieth century, and an attempt to heal them. Interweaving poetry and case history, fantasy and historical truth-telling, The White Hotel is a modern classic of enduring emotional power that attempts nothing less than to reconcile the notion of individual destiny with that of historical fate.
language: English
title: The White Hotel
titlecomplete: The White Hotel
characters: Sigmund Freud
genres: Modern, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Psychology, Fantasy, Classics, Fiction, Holocaust
ratings_count: 4769
places: Ukraine, Vienna, Austria
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: World Fantasy Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Cheltenham Prize for Literature
publisher: Penguin Books