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X-WR-CALDESC:Grand Hotel by Vicki Baum (304 pages)\n\nA grand hotel in the 
 center of 1920s Berlin serves as a microcosm of the modern world in this c
 elebrated novel which was the basis for the 1932 Oscar-winning film starri
 ng Greta Garbo and John Barrymore.  \n\nThe luxury Grand Hotel is a revolv
 ing door for the stray souls of 1920s Berlin. Among the guests is Doctor O
 tternschlag\, a World War I veteran whose face has been sliced in half by 
 a shell. Day after day he emerges to read the paper in the lobby\, discree
 tly inquiring at the desk if the letter he’s been awaiting for years has a
 rrived. Then there is Grusinskaya\, a great ballerina now fighting a losin
 g battle not so much against age as against her fear of it\, who may or ma
 y not be made for Gaigern\, a sleek professional thief. Herr Preysing also
  checks in\, the director of a family firm that isn’t as flourishing as it
  appears\, who would never imagine that Kringelein\, his underling\, a tim
 orous petty clerk he’s bullied for years\, has also come to Berlin\, deter
 mined to live at last now that he’s received a medical death sentence.\n\n
 All these characters and more\, with all their secrets and aspirations\, c
 ome together and come alive in the pages of Baum’s delicious and disturbin
 g masterpiece—a Weimar-era bestseller that retains all its verve and luste
 r today.\n
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DESCRIPTION:Grand Hotel by Vicki Baum (304 pages)\n\nA grand hotel in the c
 enter of 1920s Berlin serves as a microcosm of the modern world in this ce
 lebrated novel which was the basis for the 1932 Oscar-winning film starrin
 g Greta Garbo and John Barrymore.  \n\nThe luxury Grand Hotel is a revolvi
 ng door for the stray souls of 1920s Berlin. Among the guests is Doctor Ot
 ternschlag\, a World War I veteran whose face has been sliced in half by a
  shell. Day after day he emerges to read the paper in the lobby\, discreet
 ly inquiring at the desk if the letter he’s been awaiting for years has ar
 rived. Then there is Grusinskaya\, a great ballerina now fighting a losing
  battle not so much against age as against her fear of it\, who may or may
  not be made for Gaigern\, a sleek professional thief. Herr Preysing also 
 checks in\, the director of a family firm that isn’t as flourishing as it 
 appears\, who would never imagine that Kringelein\, his underling\, a timo
 rous petty clerk he’s bullied for years\, has also come to Berlin\, determ
 ined to live at last now that he’s received a medical death sentence.\n\nA
 ll these characters and more\, with all their secrets and aspirations\, co
 me together and come alive in the pages of Baum’s delicious and disturbing
  masterpiece—a Weimar-era bestseller that retains all its verve and luster
  today.\n
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SUMMARY:IFL Classics Book Club: Grand Hotel by Vicki Baum
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