The Third Hotel (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780374168353)

A] future cult classic. --The New York Times Book Review

There's Borges and Bola o, Kafka and Cort zar, Modiano and Murakami, and now Laura van den Berg. --The Washington Post

Finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Award. Named a Best Book of 2018 by The Boston Globe, Huffington Post, Electric Literature and Lit Hub. An August 2018 IndieNext Selection. Named a Summer 2018 Read by The Washington Post, Vulture, Nylon, Elle, BBC, InStyle, Refinery29, Bustle, O, the Oprah Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Harper's Bazaar, Conde Nast Traveler, Southern Living, Lit Hub, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn.

In Havana, Cuba, a widow tries to come to terms with her husband's death--and the truth about their marriage--in Laura van den Berg's surreal, mystifying story of psychological reflection and metaphysical mystery.

Shortly after Clare arrives in Havana, Cuba, to attend the annual Festival of New Latin American Cinema, she finds her husband, Richard, standing outside a museum. He's wearing a white linen suit she's never seen before, and he's supposed to be dead. Grief-stricken and baffled, Clare tails Richard, a horror film scholar, through the newly tourist-filled streets of Havana, clocking his every move. As the distinction between reality and fantasy blurs, Clare finds grounding in memories of her childhood in Florida and of her marriage to Richard, revealing her role in his death and reappearance along the way. The Third Hotel is a propulsive, brilliantly shape-shifting novel from an inventive author at the height of her narrative powers.

Author: Laura Van Den Berg
ISBN-10: 0374168350
ISBN-13: 9780374168353
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English
Published: 08/07/2018
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
BookPage 08/01/2018
Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/15/2018 pg. 74
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2018
Publishers Weekly 06/04/2018
Library Journal 07/01/2018 pg. 71
Booklist 07/01/2018 pg. 21
Shelf Awareness 08/31/2018