by Vicki Baum · Macmillan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330028950
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«Grand Hotel» is the novel by Vicki Baum, published by Macmillan in 1972 in paperback (272 pages, in English).
Set in a grand hotel in 1920s Berlin, the novel interweaves the stories of its guests: a dancer who fears losing her radiance, a thief posing as an aristocrat, a manager in trouble, and a clerk who decides to live at last after learning of his illness. The hotel acts as a microcosm of lives and aspirations.
Work originally published in German as «Menschen im Hotel» in 1929; this English edition, translated by Basil Creighton, appeared in 1972.
Recommended for readers of twentieth-century classics and literary fiction.
Hedwig "Vicki" Baum was an Austrian writer. She is known for the novel Menschen im Hotel, one of her first international successes. It was made into a 1932 film and a 1989 Broadway musical.
