WHITE HOTEL

IT IS A DREAM OF ELECTRIFYING EROTICISM AND INEXPLICABLE VIOLENCE, RECOUNTED BY A YOUNG WOMAN TO HER ANALYST, SIGMUND FREUD. IT IS A HORRIFYING YET RESTRAINED NARRATIVE OF THE HOLOCAUST. IT IS A SEARING VISION OF THE WOUNDS OF OUR CENTURY, AND AN ATTEMPT TO HEAL THEM. INTERWEAVING POETRY AND CASE HISTORY, FANTASY AND HISTORICAL TRUTH-TELLING, THE WHITE HOTEL IS A MODERN CLASSIC OF ENDURING EMOTIONAL POWER THAT ATTEMPTS NOTHING LESS THAN TO RECONCILE THE NOTION OF INDIVIDUAL DESTINY WITH THAT OF HISTORICAL FATE. 'I QUICKLY CAME TO FEEL THAT I HAD FOUND THAT BOOK, THAT MYTHICAL BOOK, THAT WOULD EXPLAIN US TO OURSELVES' LESLIE EPSTEIN, NEW YORK TIMES