The White Hotel
Book description
The worldwide bestselling, Booker-shortlisted modern classic
Now a BBC radio play starring Anne-Marie Duff and Bill Paterson, dramatised by Dennis Potter.
'Spine-tingling... heart-stunning' New York Times
'A novel of blazing imaginative and intellectual force' Salman Rushdie
'This novel is a reminder that fiction can amaze' Time
'Precise, troubling, brilliant' Observer…
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This novel shocked and even horrified me at first with its graphic description of a woman’s sexual fantasies. What has this to do with the horrors that are to follow? What is the relevance to the Holocaust of Freud’s attempt to treat this disturbed woman? The novel created huge controversy on its publication, and it took me several readings to understand what the author was suggesting–at least, what I think he meant because nothing is spelled out for the reader.
This is the heartbreaking story of a young woman and her small son caught up in the horror of what…
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