D. M. THOMASthe white hotelD. M. THOMASWhite HotelBy his main profession, Donald Michael Thomas is a translator of Pushkin and Akhmatova. This leaves a unique imprint on his own fiction. We bring to your attention one of the most famous novels of modern English literature. Shocking contemporaries with the frankness of its intimate content, instantly becoming a bestseller and translated into more than twenty languages, “The White Hotel” is structured as the case history of one patient of Sigmund Freud. Tracing her fate, the novel touches on the most painful points of our common history and causes an emotional shock in the reader, who is, it would seem, already accustomed to everything. Donald Michael Thomas (b. 1935) is a famous English writer and poet. His main profession is as a translator of Pushkin and Akhmatova, which leaves a unique imprint on his own fiction. “The White Hotel” shocked contemporaries with the frankness of its intimate content, instantly became a bestseller and was translated into more than two languages. “White Hotel” was followed by the pentalogy “Quintet of Russian Nights” (“Ararat”, “Swallow”, “Sphinx”, “Meeting at the Summit”, “Bed of Lies”), the novels “Tasting Pavlova”, “Lady with a Laptop” and others , including the thematic sequel to The White Hotel, Pictures at an Exhibition. A strange and wonderful novel... superbly written... brilliantly original. John Gardner A surreal nightmare that turns into a stunning exploration of the relationship between truth and fiction, heroism and cruelty, love and death. Unforgettable. Paul Theroux A stunning, highly original novel. Not a single book comes to mind that could be placed side by side - both in purely literary terms and in ideological terms. "The White Hotel" stands apart. Graham Greene