Hotel Exile
Paris in the Shadow of War
$71.58
- Hardcover
368 pages
- Release Date
26 March 2026
Summary
The Hotel Lutetia is a Paris institution, the only ‘grand’ hotel on the city’s bohemian Left Bank. Ever since it opened, it has served as a meeting place for artists, musicians and politicians. Andre Gide took his lunch here, James Joyce lived in one of its rooms, Picasso and Matisse were regular guests. It has a darker history, too. During one short period, it became a focus for some of the most dramatic and terrible events in recent history.
In the 1930s the Hotel Lutetia attracted …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241679630 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 024167963X |
| Author: | Jane Rogoyska |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Allen Lane |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 26 March 2026 |
| Weight: | 570g |
| Dimensions: | 35mm x 162mm x 243mm |
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Critics Review
Outstanding … Rogoyska’s book soars to great heights – Kathryn Hughes * Guardian *
[An] exceptional work of non-fiction – you couldn’t just call it a history book, it’s more than that … Rogoyska captures the historical moment with a rare combination of urgency and empathy … [She] has trawled memoirs from hotel staff and ex-officers, unearthing stories that are peculiarly resonant … This is a scintillatingly good book. I think it will win prizes – not least because it is subtly experimental … It slips in and out of the present tense like a contemporary novel … It feels thrillingly immersive. In fact, I’ve rarely felt such a sense of the historical moment. Or indeed the present moment. Because if ever a book were about now as well as then, it’s this one. – James McConnachie * The Sunday Times *
Rogoyska proves such a fresh, astute and unaffected writer that there’s not a dull page, so vividly is the drama of it all communicated… A hauntingly vivid account – Rupert Christiansen * Literary Review *
Impressive and original… vivid and thoroughly researched… a masterclass – Patrick Marnham * Spectator *
A devastating and memorable account of lives thrown into upheaval by Nazism * Irish Independent *
Beautifully written … this is a compelling book full of lessons we may not wish to hear * Country Life *
Poignant and richly layered * History of War magazine *
Powerful * Mail on Sunday *
Riveting – and heartbreaking * The Economist *
Transformed from hotel to hospital, the Lutetia… and the dramas it witnessed are brought here to vivid, searing life * The Tablet *
Jane Rogoyska
Jane Rogoyska is the author of Surviving Katyn: Stalin’s Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth, Gerda Taro: Inventing Robert Capa, and the novel Kozlowski.
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