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02460aam a22003858i 4500 001 2B653BE0401C11E6AD873F83DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160702011327 008 151016s2016 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2015037856 020 $a 1590179676 (pbk.) : 020 $a 9781590179673 (pbk.) : 040 $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h ger 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PT2603.A815 $b M413 2016 082 00 $a 833/.912 $2 23 100 1 $a Baum, Vicki, $d 1888-1960, $e author. 245 10 $a Grand hotel / $c Vicki Baum ; translated from the German by Basil Creighton ; with revisions by Margot Bettauer Dembo ; introduction by Noah Isenberg. 263 $a 1606. 264 1 $a New York : $b New York Review Books, $c [2016] 300 $a pages cm. 490 0 $a New York Review Books classics. 520 $a "A 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 7 $a Hotels $z Berlin $z Berlin $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Psychological fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 gsafd. 700 1 $a Creighton, Basil, $e translator. 730 0 $a Menschen im Hotel. $l English. 941 $a 4 952 $l WHPE115 $d 20231121011050.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231017022534.0 952 $l WXPD305 $d 20160825095801.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20160702013234.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2B653BE0401C11E6AD873F83DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search