The White Hotel : Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1981

The worldwide bestselling, Booker-shortlisted modern classic

Now a BBC radio play starring Anne-Marie Duff and Bill Paterson, dramatised by Dennis Potter.

''Spine-tingling... heart-stunning'' New York Times

''A novel of blazing imaginative and intellectual force'' Salman Rushdie

''This novel is a reminder that fiction can amaze'' Time

''Precise, troubling, brilliant'' Observer

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, The White Hotel is a modern classic of searing eroticism and sensuality set against the broad sweep of twentieth-century history.

It is a dream of electrifying eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud. It is a horrifying yet restrained narrative of the Holocaust. It is a searing vision of the wounds of our century and an attempt to heal them. Interweaving poetry and case history, fantasy and historical truth-telling, The White Hotel is a modern classic of enduring emotional power that attempts nothing less than to reconcile the notion of individual destiny with that of historical fate.

''A remarkable and original novel . . . there is no novel to my knowledge which resembles this in technique or ideas. It stands alone'' Graham Greene

''Astonishing . . . A forthright sensuality mixed with a fine historical feeling for the nightmare moments in modern history, a dreamlike fluidity and quickness'' John Updike

''A dazzler that lingers in the mind'' People