Hotel du Lac
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984
184
Novel • Fiction
Swiss Lakeside Hotel • 1980s
1984
Adult
18+ years
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner follows Edith Hope, a romance writer who has been banished from London due to social disgrace, as she endures an enforced vacation in a Swiss hotel. At the hotel, she forms an uneasy friendship with the glamorous Mrs. Pusey and her daughter Jennifer, and navigates a complex relationship with Mr. Neville, a wealthy businessman who proposes to her. Sensitive topics in the book include eating disorders and emotional isolation.
Melancholic
Contemplative
Bittersweet
Serene
Mysterious
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Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac is celebrated for its elegant prose and introspective exploration of loneliness and self-discovery. Readers appreciate its vivid descriptions and character depth, but some find its slow pace and lack of action less engaging. Overall, it remains a poignant and thoughtfully crafted novel that resonates with many, despite its deliberate pacing.
A reader who appreciates introspective literary fiction, character-driven narratives, and themes of solitude and self-discovery would enjoy Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner. Fans of Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse might find this novel similarly engaging.
26,331 ratings
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184
Novel • Fiction
Swiss Lakeside Hotel • 1980s
1984
Adult
18+ years
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