Description
A woman in her mid-thirties arrives at a hotel in Avignon—and then, as if by compulsion, moves through a chain of anonymous rooms in different cities, each stay offering a new angle on the same unresolved inner life. In this enigmatic, largely plot-light novel, Eimear McBride turns the hotel corridor into a psychological landscape where memory, self-interrogation, and the aftershocks of tragedy shape every encounter. As strangers appear and disappear and the world keeps changing around her, the book traces themes of exile, displacement, and the ways language and silence fail to contain what has happened. McBride’s distinctive, lyrical style—intimate, restless, and sharply attentive to thought—makes Strange Hotel feel less like travel than a haunting, moving meditation on grief and survival.
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hardcover
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published May 5, 2020
160 pages
ISBN: 9780374270629
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First Published
2020
Language
eng
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