num_pages: 148
description:  A funny wistful and utterly beguiling novel about a man whose life is falling apart and how he learns to put it back together JNAS FEELS LIKE HIS LIFE IS OVER.His wife has left him his mother is slipping deeper into dementia and his daughter is no longer who he thought. So he comes up with a foolproof plan: to buy a one-way ticket to a chaotic war-ravaged country and put an end to it all.But on arriving at Hotel Silence he finds his plans  and his anonymity  begin to dissolve under the foreign sun. Now there are other things that need his attention like the crumbling hotel itself the staff who run it and his unusual fellow guests. And soon it becomes clear that Jnas must decide whether he really wants to leave it all behind; or give life a second chance albeit down a must unexpected pathHotel Silence won the Icelandic Literary Prize 2016 and was chosen Best Icelandic Novel in 2016 by booksellers in Iceland.
language: English
title: Hotel Silence
publisher: Pushkin Press