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From the bestselling, Booker-shortlisted chronicler of Italy, a classic novel about a man’s emotional reckoning in a changed world far from home
Frank’s reclusive existence in a leafy part of London is shattered when he is summoned to Milan for the funeral of an old friend. Preoccupied by this sudden intrusion of his past, he flies, oblivious, into the epicentre of a crisis he has barely registered on the news.
It is spring, his luxury hotel offers every imaginable comfort; perhaps he will be able to weather the situation and return home unscathed? What Frank doesn’t know is that he’s about to make a discovery that will change his heart and his mind.
Hotel Milano is a universal story from a unique moment in recent history: a book about the kindness of strangers, and about a complicated man who, faced with the possibility of saving a life, must also take stock of his own.
ASIN : B0B8BNBBQT
Editore : Vintage Digital (19 gennaio 2023)
Lingua : Inglese
Dimensioni file : 2645 KB
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Lunghezza indole : 229 pagine
Numeri di pagina fonte ISBN : 1787303411
O. Klepper –
A masterwork
Funny and moving, a beautiful memoir of the Covid period.
Clare Sussex –
but then found I couldn’t put it down. Took it away for a holiday read, and was about to discard it as ‘not light enough’ but it turned into a page turner for me. I endorse much of what the previous reviewers have said – an unusual novel, with an ‘elderly’, sometimes irritating hero, but all heart.
mr john peter murphy –
The writer that Julian Barnes aspires to be, Tim Parks has written a touching, humanistic novel depicting the tumultuous events of our times as they intersect with our personal journey through life.
Judith Martinez –
I really enjoyed this book. I couldnât put it down. I would have liked to have known if Frank survived his ordeal.
barcher –
I liked this as to protagonists, opposite as far as they could be, were thrown together in this story of angst experienced between them. One, a dispossessed family that would struggle in the best of times and a man, cultured, educated who became involved with them as they huddled down together at the height of the COVID pandemic. I liked the ending, no loose ends tidied up, no resolutions – just as life itself, you were left to conclude what may or may not have happened.
GERI T. –
Disappointing overall. I wouldnât recommend the book. Didnât enjoy the style of writing, nor the ending. Wonât read another one.