The White Hotel is now recognised as a modern classic Shortlisted for the Booker Prize A world-wide bestseller since first publication in 1981 now reissueed with stunning new cover 'A novel of blazing imaginative and intellectual force' Salman Rushdie 'A remarkable and original novel...there is no novel to my knowledge which resembles this in technique or ideas. It stands alone' Graham Greene 'Astonishing...A forthright sensuality mixed with a fine historical feeling for the nightmare moments in modern history, a dreamlike fluidity and quickness' John Updike
DM Thomas was born in Cornwall in 1935. After reading English at New College, Oxford, he became a teacher until he became a full-time writer. His novels include The Flute-Player, Ararat, Swallow, Sphinx, Summit, Flying into Love and Eating Pavlova. He has also published memoirs, several volumes of poetry and translations of Pushkin and Anna Akhmatova. He now lives in Cornwall.
A novel of blazing imaginative and intellectual force
*Salman Rushdie*
To describe this novel as spine-tingling in its indescribable
poetic effect would be to trivialize its profoundly tragic theme.
Say then that it is heart-stunning
*The New York Times*
Astonishing ... A forthright sensuality mixed with a fine
historical feeling for the nightmare moments in modern history, a
dreamlike fluidity and quickness
*John Updike*
A dazzler that lingers in the mind
*People*
A remarkable and original novel ... there is no novel to my
knowledge which resembles this in technique or ideas. It stands
alone
*Graham Greene*
This novel is a reminder that fiction can amaze
*Time*
Precise, troubling, brilliant
*Observer*
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