WINNER OF THE BEST BOOK DESIGN OF THE YEAR
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"The Hotel invites life-philosophical self-reflection and to puzzle with everything we think we know. I send my warmest recommendations."
- Modspor
"A Camus-inspired novella beyond the ordinary. The plot is tightly constructed but with a poetic and visual language that creates an unsettlingly rational reading of the absurd and shocking plot. Entertaining, if you’re into the grotesque… Recommended for everyone."
A grotesque and surreal story about the hardest choice of existentialism: to live meaningfully. Mersault works as head waiter at the city's most prestigious hotel. He is a slave to the habit of seemingly meaningless routines, so when he one day finds the hotel owner dead, he decides to continue running the hotel as if nothing had happened. When Mersault dismembers the deceased owner's body and serves the meat to the unsuspecting guests, it is only the first link in a chain of meaningful, bloody coincidences.
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WINNER OF THE BEST BOOK DESIGN OF THE YEAR
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"The Hotel invites life-philosophical self-reflection and to puzzle with everything we think we know. I send my warmest recommendations."
– Modspor
"A Camus-inspired novella beyond the ordinary. The plot is tightly constructed with a poetic and visual language that creates an unsettlingly rational reading of the absurd and shocking plot. Entertaining, if you’re into the grotesque… Recommended for everyone."
– DBC
A grotesque and surreal story about the hardest choice of existentialism: to live meaningfully. Mersault works as head waiter at the city's most prestigious hotel. He is a slave to the habit of seemingly meaningless routines, so when he one day finds the hotel owner dead, he decides to continue running the hotel as if nothing had happened. When Mersault dismembers the deceased owner's body and serves the meat to the unsuspecting guests, it is only the first link in a chain of meaningful, bloody coincidences.
Storm Frost (born 1986) is one of Onkel Hawaii's aliases. The anonymous author's books are known for their jazzy existentialism with a penchant for the morbid and grotesque. The author debuted with the cult classic Andedrengens Bodegakronik (2014) and has since published, among others. Nyctophilia, Dark Halo and Copenhagen is white and blue.
The author was briefly part of the avant-garde English death cult. Doom Patrol.
Baggaardens Baglommebøger is a series of independent and conclusive short forms that serve as an introduction to overlooked or curious voices in Danish literature.
Zven Balslev, known for his challenging and surreal style, is affiliated as the cover illustrator for the series.
The Hotel is number 3 in the series Back Pocket Books.
The author's fee for the publication is donated to the National Association for Women Affected by Violence.
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