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Within the book that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner discovers a brand new language for mounting the timeless question "Why love?" It tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a psudonym. When her life starts to resemble the plots of her own books, nevertheless, Edith flees to Switzerland, where in actuality the peaceful luxury of the Hotel du-lac guarantees to resore her to her senses.But in the place of peace and relaxation, Edith finds himself sequestered in the hotel by having an range of love's deaths and exiles. She also draws the interest of the man decided release a her abandoned convenience of enjoyment and mischief. Superbly seen, witheringly funny, Hotel du-lac is Brookner at her many potently and fashionable subversive.