In Grand Hotel Europa, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer delivers a sweeping and reflective novel about love, memory, and Europe’s uncertain future. A writer checks into a fading grand hotel, where he reflects on his failed relationship with Clio and retraces their journeys through Genoa, Venice, Malta, and the Cinque Terre. His search for a lost Caravaggio painting becomes entwined with meditations on history, art, and the decline of old-world Europe in the face of mass tourism and globalization. With lyrical prose and sharp insight, Pfeijffer explores how the weight of the past shapes the present, and how nostalgia can both preserve and distort what we cherish.
Technical Details
Pages: 560
Publication Year: 2023 (English edition)
Publisher: 4th Estate / HarperCollins UK
Language: English
Original Language: Dutch (Grand Hotel Europa, 2018)
Translator: Michele Hutchison
ISBN-10: 0008375410
ISBN-13: 9780008375416
Format: Paperback
