In Laura van den Berg's surreal, mystifying, and deeply felt second
novel, Clare, recently widowed, arrives in Havana, Cuba, to attend
the 36th annual Festival of New Latin American Cinema, which her
horror-loving film-professor husband, Richard, had purchased
tickets for. The day after the screening of the movie Richard
wanted most to see, Clare finds him standing outside the Museum of
the Revolution. He's wearing a white linen suit she's never seen
before, and he's supposed to be dead. Meticulously constructed and
brimming with layered, poetic imagery, The Third Hotel follows
Clare through her time in Havana as the distinction between reality
and fantasy becomes increasingly blurred. In van den Berg's Havana,
animals escape from zoos and trains fly off the tracks while Clare
follows her once-dead husband and charts her less-than-perfect
marriage. As her search for clarity becomes increasingly opaque,
the reader is forced to consider not only what is real and what is
not, but what truths are lingering behind Clare's own involvement
in her husband's disappearance and reemergence. Filled with subtle
but striking meditations on grief, marriage, art, misogyny, and the
loneliness of travel, The Third Hotel is a singular, propulsive,
brilliantly shape-shifting novel from an inventive author at the
height of her narrative powers.
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