Hotel Europa
By: Dumitru Tsepeneag ; translated by Patrick Camiller
Contributors: Camiller, Patrick
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Romanian literature series; Romanian literature series
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Champaign, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9781564785701
Subjects: Romanians; Fiction
Work titles: Hôtel Europa
Description: The author-narrator, a sarcastic Romanian émigré with a French wife, tells with great insight and humor the story of a young student's life and education as he passes from post-Ceausescu Romania through an unwelcoming Western Europe beset with dangerous problems of its own. Sex-and drug-traffickers are only one part of the strange and paranoid world in which the student and his fellow-countrymen become entangled, while the author's past-in the form of post-communist gangsters-begins to catch up with him in his retreat in rural France ...
Notes: Originally published in Romanian as Hotel Europa in 1996.