A review by literarytranquillity
The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

Extremely painful but also playful; erotic but tender. It presents both raw and indirect forms of violence, not only to show brutality but also strength. There is a slow transition from the state of being without identity to feeling complete and whole. It is a case study, a poem, a historical account, an account of precarious lives, an epistolary, and much more. All in all, it is a truly complex book that has many layers that are hard to deconstruct, even though they are most likely connected to each other, existing simultaneously, or even merging together.