by NRB | 8 Oct 2014 | Giveaways |
This draw is now closed. Congratulations to the winner, Kim Peterson from Glenorie. David Leavitt The Two Hotel Francforts Two couples meet while awaiting safe passage back to America from Lisbon in 1940, and their lives begin both to intertwine and to unravel...
by NRB | 22 Apr 2014 | Fiction |
The Two Hotel Francforts is an elegant novel of individual concerns set against a background of desperate times. In Lisbon in 1940, two American couples meet up in the chaotic city as they join other exiles desperate to flee to the United States. The story is narrated...
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