![]() It is rightly considered a modern classic, translated into more than 30 languages. His novel The White Hotel was an international bestseller and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Thomas is a British novelist and poet, born and living in Cornwall. It is a vivid and poignant portrayal of the sometimes thin dividing line between becoming good or evil.ĭ.M. ![]() This novel is a fictionalised account of those who were to change the very collective psyche of mankind. In such places the nightmare moments of modern history are conceived. Vienna in the early 20th century was, in the words of our protagonist and narrator, a soulless, syphilitic whore of a city a turbulent and bubbling melting pot of races, creeds and politics, rapidly expanding as it strained to contain the ever-increasing multitudes. ![]()
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