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Book Review of The White Hotel

The White Hotel
The White Hotel
Author: D. M. Thomas
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Abstract and enthralling! This kept me hostage to it's pages! Great read!

About the book-

It is a dream of electrifying eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud. It is a horrifying yet restrained narrative of the Holocaust. It is a searing vision of the wounds of our century, and an attempt to heal them. Interweaving poetry and case history, fantasy and historical truth-telling, THE WHITE HOTEL is a modern classic of enduring emotional power that attempts nothing less than to reconcile the notion of individual destiny with that of historical fate. 'I quickly came to feel that I had found that book, that mythical book, that would explain us to ourselves' Leslie Epstein, New York Times