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.
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