Giovanni's Room Shannon Russell The Third Hotel is a

The Third Hotel is a propulsive

Winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize

begins to blossom

in which two illicit lovers amuse each other by spinning a tale of a blind killer on a distant planet

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Giovanni's Room Shannon Russell The Third Hotel is aIn the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he is drawn in spite of himself. Soon the two are spending the night in Giovannis curtainless room, which he keeps dark to protect their