Anita Brookner had a lonely childhood, although her grandmother and uncle lived with the family, and her parents, secular Jews, opened their house to Jewish refugees escaping Nazi persecution during the 1930s and World War II. Maude changed the family's surname to Brookner owing to anti-German sentiment in England.

Her father, Newson Bruckner, was a Polish immigrant, and her mother, Maude Schiska, was a singer whose father had emigrated from Poland and founded a tobacco factory. She lives in London.Īnita Brookner is an English novelist and art historian. An international authority on eighteenth-century painting, she became the first female Slade Professor at Cambride University. Courtauld Institute ofĪnita Brookner is the author of twenty beautifully crafted novels, including Falling Slowly, Undue Influence, and Hotel du Lac, which won the Booker Prize. Beautifully observed, witheringly funny, Hotel du Lac is Brookner at her most stylish and potently subversive. She also attracts the attention of a worldly man determined to release her unused capacity for mischief and pleasure. When her life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, however, Edith flees to Switzerland, where the quiet luxury of the Hotel du Lac promises to resore her to her senses.īut instead of peace and rest, Edith finds herself sequestered at the hotel with an assortment of love's casualties and exiles. In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question 'Why love?' It tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a psudonym.

All are welcome to attend, and if you purchase your book here in the store you'll always get a 10% discount.Summary | Author | Book Reviews | Discussion Questions Our staff facilitator chooses both fiction and nonfiction titles. Island Book's daytime open book club will meet on Monday May 20th at 10:30am.

But instead of peace and rest, Edith finds herself sequestered at the hotel with an assortment of love's casualties and exiles.

When her life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, however, Edith flees to Switzerland, where the quiet luxury of the Hotel du Lac promises to resore her to her senses. In May, our Daytime Open Book Club will read and discuss Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner.

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