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020			_a9781590179673
050	0	0	_aPT2603.A815 _bM413 2016
082	1		_aFIC BAU _2
100	1		_aBaum, Vicki _d(, 1888-1960)
245	1	0	_aGrand hotel _c/ Vicki Baum ; translated by Basil Creighton ; revised by Margot Bettauer Dembo ; introduction by Noah Isenberg.
260			_aNew York _b: New York Review Books _c, 2016, c1929
300			_a270 p. _c; 21 cm.
490	0		_aNew York Review Books classics
520			_aA grand hotel in the center of 1920s Berlin serves as a microcosm of the modern world in Vicki Baum's celebrated novel, a Weimar-era bestseller that retains all its verve and luster today. Among the guests of the hotel is Dr. Otternschlag, a World War I veteran whose face has been sliced in half by a shell. Day after day he emerges to read the paper in the lobby, discreetly inquiring at the desk if the letter he's been awaiting for years has arrived. Then there is Grusinskaya, a great ballerina now fighting a losing battle not so much against age as against her fear of it, and Gaigern, a sleek professional thief, who may or may not be made for each other. Herr Preysing also checks in, the director of a family firm that isn't as flourishing as it appears, who would never imagine that Kringelein, his underling, a timorous petty clerk he's bullied for years, has also come to Berlin, determined to live at last now that he's received a medical death sentence. All these characters and more, with their secret fears and hopes, come together and come alive in the pages of Baum's delicious and disturbing masterpiece.
546			_aTranslated from the German to English.
650		4	_aHotels _z-Germany _z-Berlin _v--Fiction.
655		4	_aPsychological fiction
655		4	_aHistorical fiction
700	1		_aCreighton, Basil
700	1		_aDembo, Margot Bettauer _e, Translator
700	1		_aIsenberg, Noah
942			_cMO
999			_c251671 _d251671