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Book SynopsisOffers three tales that features a commanding female protagonist trapped in her place of origin, neither able nor wanting to escape from the home that gave her life but which now threatens to destroy her. This title presents personal images of utopia, the importance of heritage, and the necessity of burying the dead to approach the future.
Trade Review"In
Hôtel Splendid, the youngest of three sisters cares for her two ailing siblings and fights to save the decrepit family hotel from total decay as it sinks slowly into a swamp. . . . Jordan Stump's excellent translation successfully captures the haunting, impressionistic nature of Redonnet's prose. Her deceptively simple style, with its short sentences and minimalist vocabulary, evokes fleeting moods and situations and gives [her] novels a poetic, musical quality. Strangely moving in its simplicity, her work is to be highly recommended to all those who appreciate the soothing effects of fairy tales and legends."—
Review of Contemporary Fiction"Like traveling a very long, very dark tunnel into a blinding bright beautiful light."—
Kirkus"Marie Redonnet's 1986 classic reveals a world that is as resplendent as it is disturbed, one where to succumb to impermanence proves more worthwhile than to resist."—Tricia Viveros, transitbooks.org
