{"product_id":"the-little-hotel-text-classics","title":"The Little Hotel: Text Classics","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople live year after year in a hotel like this. We have their police papers, we know their sicknesses and family troubles; people come to confide in you. They tell you things they would not tell their own parents and friends, not even their lawyers and doctors.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter the Second World War, bizarre characters from across the ruined continent have gathered at the 'fourth-rate' Hotel Swiss-Touring by Lake Geneva. Some are residents, while other guests have come for the season. In the claustrophobic atmosphere of the little hotel, their eccentricities and their desperation-their jealousies and vindictiveness-are all too apparent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in 1973, shortly before Christina Stead's return to Australia, \u003ci\u003eThe Little Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e is a sharp, witty satire of changing lives in postwar Europe.","brand":"Christina Stead","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43516773105725,"sku":null,"price":14.2,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9781925355734.jpg?v=1787572638","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/the-little-hotel-text-classics","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}