Hotel Arcadia - Couverture rigide

Singh, Sunny

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0704373793 ISBN 13 : 9780704373792

Editeur : Quartet Books, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Sam is a war photographer famous for her hauntingly beautiful pictures of the dead. After a particularly gruelling assignment, she checks into an expensive hotel. Unfortunately she has chosen the exact moment terrorists attack the hotel. Abhi, the hotel manager, begs her to stay quiet and stay put. Abhi has never wanted to be a hero; a disappointment to his army father and brother. He thought he'd come to a safe haven at the hotel, a place where he could be himself. Now stuck inside the sealed-off manager's office in the middle of a terrorist attack, he is desperately trying to keep those still alive safe. His lover Dieter is amongst the hostages in the bar and the photographer Sam, refusing to stay in her room, is roaming through the hotel taking pictures, potentially coming face to face with the terrorists at any moment. A small child, Billy, is found alive under the bodies of his dead parents and Abhi has to persuade the non-maternal Sam to bring him back to her room. He's hurt and Sam has no clue how to look after a child. As the tension mounts and more people are killed, the bond between Sam and Abhi, between Sam and Billy, grows. If any of them get out alive, none of them will ever be the same...

Biographie de l'auteur :

Sunny Singh was born in Varanasi, India. She graduated from Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, in 1990 with a degree in English and American Literature. She has a Masters in Spanish Language, Literature and Culture from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and a Ph.D from the Universitat de Barcelona. Now living in London, she is head lecturer in creative writing at the London Metropolitan University. She founded the Jhalak Foundation, which funds and organises paediatric cardiac surgery for under-privileged children in India. She has contributed to a collection of stories selected by Khushwant Singh, American anthologies, The Drawbridge, International PEN, numerous academic journals and newspapers worldwide. An expert on Bollywood, BFI have just commissioned her to write a book on Amitabh Bachchan for her film star series.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Quartet Books
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0704373793
• ISBN 13: 9780704373792
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224