Hotel Andromeda: a novel

✍ Scribed by Cornell, Joseph;Josipovici, Gabriel

• Book ID: 100572717
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 69 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: England--London., London (England
• ISBN: 1847775446

✦ Synopsis

"In a house in a quiet street in North London, Helena struggles with her self-appointed task of writing a book about the reclusive American artist Joseph Cornell. At the same time she dreams and thinks about her sister Alice working in an orphanage in Chechnya. She is certain that Alice despises her for living a life of comfort and privilege, far away from the horrors of war; yet she knows too that her work is more than self-indulgence. How to reconcile these two visions? Enter Ed, a Czech journalist and photographer who claims he has been working in Chechnya and brings news of Alice, along with the request for a bed for the few days he has to be in London ..."--Provided by publisher;Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Conversation at the Top of the House; And in the Basement; An Unexpected Phone Call; The Arrival of the Man From Grozny; A Walk Along the Towpath; Nom de Plume or Nom de Guerre?; Hotel Andromeda; Thanks to the Russians; A Foul Mood; The Hands of Orlac; It Seems That They Mourn in Silence; I'm the Lady; I Don't Know How to Go On; Nothing to Do Except Die; Round and Round; Short for Michaela; GC 44; Not Even the Tiniest Chink; A Tall Stack of Danish; No Problem; From Another Lady; Houdini; Now; Body in Boot; Soon Enough; That Was Then.

✦ Subjects

England -- London