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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Baum, Vicki, 1888-1960, author.
Uniform title:	Menschen im Hotel. English
Imprint:	New York : New York Review Books, [2016]
Description:	xvi, 270 pages ; 21 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	New York Review Books classics New York Review Books classics.
Subject:	Hotels -- Germany -- Berlin -- Fiction. Hotels. Germany -- Berlin. Fiction. Historical fiction. Psychological fiction. Psychological fiction. Historical fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11607852

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Other authors / contributors:	Creighton, Basil, translator.
ISBN:	9781590179673 1590179676 9781590179680
Notes:	Translated from the German.
Summary:	"A grand hotel in the center of 1920s Berlin serves as a microcosm of the modern world in Vicki Baum's celebrated novel, a Weimar-era bestseller that retains all its verve and luster today. Among the guests of the hotel is Dr. Otternschlag, a World War I veteran whose face has been sliced in half by a shell. Day after day he emerges to read the paper in the lobby, discreetly inquiring at the desk if the letter he's been awaiting for years has arrived. Then there is Grusinskaya, a great ballerina now fighting a losing battle not so much against age as against her fear of it, and Gaigern, a sleek professional thief, who may or may not be made for each other. Herr Preysing also checks in, the director of a family firm that isn't as flourishing as it appears, who would never imagine that Kringelein, his underling, a timorous petty clerk he's bullied for years, has also come to Berlin, determined to live at last now that he's received a medical death sentence. All these characters and more, with their secret fears and hopes, come together and come alive in the pages of Baum's delicious and disturbing masterpiece"--
Other form:	Online version: Baum, Vicki, 1888-1960. Grand hotel. New York : NYRB Classics, 2016 9781590179680

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