In a Hotel Garden (Hardcover)

In a hotel garden in Italy, Ben meets Lily. In another hotel garden, in another part of Italy, some 70 years ago, Lily's grandmother had met another young man... This is a simple, spare tale, told almost entirely in dialogue, of a self-conscious English teacher who becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman he has met on holiday. It is strange, unsettling, and superb. (Kirkus UK)

"In a Hotel Garden" is the strangest and most enigmatic of Gabriel Josipovici's many strange, enigmatic novels. On the surface it is a simple story of the growing obsession young Englishman with a Jewish woman he meets on holiday. Gradually it reveals itself as an exploration of power of memory and imagination, also raising vividly the question of how far it is possible for non-Jews to understand Jews, however intrigued by them they may be. In a haunting play of echoes the novel presents us not with hotel garden but two, embedded respectively in the stony landscape of Tuscany and in the forested mountains of Alto Adige; not one story of erotic obsession but two, played out in Italy in the 1920s, the other in present-day London. A great walk over a mountain in the Dolomites forms the mysterious centre of this book. Behind the story looms our dilemma of coming to terms with the destruction of European Jews.

General

Imprint:	Carcanet Press Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 1994
First published:	February 1993
Authors:	Gabriel Josipovici
Dimensions:	223 x 145 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	144
ISBN-13:	978-0-85635-998-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-85635-998-X
Barcode:	9780856359989

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