Hotel Savoy ; Fallmerayer the stationmaster ; the bust of the emperor

Still bearing scars from the gulag, a freed POW wanders across Russia to an industrial town in Eastern Europe. In its massive Hotel Savoy, he meets a surreal case of characters - the dancer Stasia, a former factory owner obsessed with winning the lottery, and a host of cigar-puffing plutocrats and Slav revolutionaries - waiting in vain for something to happen: the return from America of a tycoon named Bloomfield. Like Europe itself in 1932, the hotel is the stage upon which characters follow fate to its tragic destination. Classics,FIC019000/FIC040000 A POW meets other survivors of World War I in a Polish hotel in this acclaimed classic novel by the author of The Radetzky March . Still bearing the scars from gulag experiences, a freed POW traverses Russia to arrive at the Polish town of Lodz. In its massive Hotel Savoy, he meets a surreal cast of characters, each eagerly awaiting the return from America of a rich man named Bloomfield. Like Europe itself at the time, the hotel is the stage upon which characters follow fate to its tragic destination . . . Praise for Hotel Savoy "Superb Roth: witty, elegant, invariably honing in on the point where history trickles down to the level of the individual character and turns into fate." — The Nation "Roth's considerable gift lay in sketching myriad personal convulsions in that time of conflagration." — Publishers Weekly Still bearing scars from the gulag, a freed POW traverses Russia to arrive at the Polish town of Lodz. In its massive Hotel Savoy, he meets a surreal cast of characters, each eagerly awaiting the return from America of a rich man named Bloomfield. Like Europe itself in 1932, the hotel is the stage upon which characters follow fate to its tragic destination. A novel, together with two novellas, reveals Roth's skill in minute observation and his sensitivity to the tragedy of human life. More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA