The Third Hotel
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Narrated by:
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Bailey Carr
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Written by:
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Laura van den Berg
About this listen
"[A] future cult classic." (The New York Times Book Review)
"There’s Borges and Bolaño, Kafka and Cortázar, Modiano and Murakami, and now Laura van den Berg." (The Washington Post)
An August 2018 IndieNext Selection. Named a Summer 2018 Read by The Washington Post, Vulture, Nylon, Elle, BBC, InStyle, Refinery29, Bustle, O, the Oprah Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Harper's Bazaar, Conde Nast Traveler, Southern Living, Lit Hub, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn.
In Havana, Cuba, a widow tries to come to terms with her husband’s death - and the truth about their marriage - in Laura van den Berg’s surreal, mystifying story of psychological reflection and metaphysical mystery.
Shortly after Clare arrives in Havana, Cuba, to attend the annual Festival of New Latin American Cinema, she finds her husband, Richard, standing outside a museum. He’s wearing a white linen suit she’s never seen before, and he’s supposed to be dead. Grief-stricken and baffled, Clare tails Richard, a horror film scholar, through the newly tourist-filled streets of Havana, clocking his every move. As the distinction between reality and fantasy blurs, Clare finds grounding in memories of her childhood in Florida and of her marriage to Richard, revealing her role in his death and reappearance along the way. The Third Hotel is a propulsive, brilliantly shape-shifting novel from an inventive author at the height of her narrative powers.
©2018 Laura van den Berg (P)2018 Audible, Inc.What listeners say about The Third Hotel
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- Helen Polychronakos
- 2019-08-09
Beautiful writing, intriguing story
I enjoyed following this character on her unconventional visit to Havana. She’s there to attend a film festival featuring a zombie film. Without reverting to tired tropes of blood and gore, van den Berg shows how the real world outside the film’s frame is equally haunted by ghosts and revenants.
The reader is obviously very professional. For the most part, I was okay with her reading, but after a while I found she infused too much drama in every single sentence. It's not a play--it's a book. I wanted it read rather than performed so as to more fully savour van den Berg's writing.
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