{"product_id":"9780753809259","title":"The White Hotel : Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1981","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: D M Thomas\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 3 June 2004 by Orion Publishing Co (Weidenfeld \u0026amp; Nicolson) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 240 pages\u003cbr\u003e198 x 129 x 18mm | 216g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, THE WHITE HOTEL is a modern classic of searing eroticism and sensuality set against the broad sweep of twentieth-century history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow a BBC radio play starring Anne-Marie Duff and Bill Paterson, dramatised by Dennis Potter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A novel of blazing imaginative and intellectual force' Salman Rushdie 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A remarkable and original novel . . . there is no novel to my knowledge which resembles this in technique or ideas. It stands alone' Graham Greene'Astonishing . . . A forthright sensuality mixed with a fine  historical feeling for the nightmare moments in modern history, a  dreamlike fluidity and quickness' John Updike'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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"D M Thomas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64839532118365,"sku":"9780753809259","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1074\/9358\/9341\/files\/9780753809259.jpg?v=1780059093","url":"https:\/\/adventureintobooks.co.uk\/products\/9780753809259","provider":"Adventure Into Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}