Hotel Exile Paris in the Shadow of War, US Edition | 9.12 MB
Title: Hotel Exile Paris in the Shadow of War, US Edition
Author: Jane Rogoyska
Category: Nonfiction, History, France, Jewish, Military, World War II
Language: English | 352 Pages | ISBN: 9781324089919
Description:
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NONFICTION
Since its opening in 1910, the Hotel Lutetia has been a grand Paris institution, a meeting place for artists, intellectuals, musicians, and politicians. André Gide took his lunch here, James Joyce lived in one of its rooms, Picasso and Matisse were regular guests. But the hotel has a darker history, too-from the years before, during, and after the second World War. In this short period, the Lutetia witnessed some of the most dramatic and terrible events in recent history.
In Hotel Exile, Jane Rogoyska evokes in novelistic prose the emotions, dilemmas, and fates of the hotel’s patrons. In the 1930s, Europe’s bohemian artists and political activists, forced to flee their homes when Hitler came to power, met at the Lutetia with the hope of forming an…
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NONFICTION
From an award-winning historian, the story of World War II artists, intellectuals, and refugees, and one famed Paris hotel.
Since its opening in 1910, the Hotel Lutetia has been a grand Paris institution, a meeting place for artists, intellectuals, musicians, and politicians. André Gide took his lunch here, James Joyce lived in one of its rooms, Picasso and Matisse were regular guests. But the hotel has a darker history, too-from the years before, during, and after the second World War. In this short period, the Lutetia witnessed some of the most dramatic and terrible events in recent history.
In Hotel Exile, Jane Rogoyska evokes in novelistic prose the emotions, dilemmas, and fates of the hotel’s patrons. In the 1930s, Europe’s bohemian artists and political activists, forced to flee their homes when Hitler came to power, met at the Lutetia with the hope of forming an…
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