Grand Hotel Europa av Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERIlja Leonard Pfeijffer¿s moving and addictive masterpiece of European identity, nostalgia and the end of an era.¿A masterpiece: grandiose style, brilliant and rich. It will defy the ages¿ Trouw (The Netherlands)¿The love of my life lives in my past. That is, despite the alliteration, a terrible sentence to write. I do not want to come to the conclusion that, as it is the case for the hotel where I am staying and the continent after which it is named, the best time is behind me and that I have little more to expect from the future than to live on my past.¿A writer takes residence in the illustrious but decaying Grand Hotel Europa, to think about where things went wrong with Clio, with whom he fell in love in Genoa and moved to Venice. He reconstructs a compelling story of love in times of mass tourism, about their trips to Malta, Palmaria, Portovenere and the Cinque Terre and their thrilling search for the last painting of Caravaggio. Meanwhile, he becomes fa