
Hotel Lux
Imprint: Footnote Press
Synopsis
Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2024: History Book of the Year
'Hotel Lux is an unforgettable book, bringing to life not only its protagonists but an entire world, and offering a new glimpse of a vanished past' Sally Rooney
'If affection is the first ground of memory, the archive is its late flowering and Hotel Lux its conservatory, Casey's history a...
'Hotel Lux is an unforgettable book, bringing to life not only its protagonists but an entire world, and offering a new glimpse of a vanished past' Sally Rooney
'If affection is the first ground of memory, the archive is its late flowering and Hotel Lux its conservatory, Casey's history a...
Details
400 pages
Imprint: Footnote Press
Reviews
Hotel Lux is an unforgettable book, bringing to life not only its protagonists but an entire world, and offering a new glimpse of a vanished pastSally Rooney
Beautifully written and researched. Full of the fire of curiosity and the magic of discovery, Hotel Lux is a book that uncovers the radical in the everyday, the everyday in the radicalSeán Hewitt
Historian Maurice J Casey has a novelist's eye and a detective's instinct; talents that transform what might seem like a niche story into a compelling thriller. The sweep of his research and his discoveries are breathtakingIrish Examiner
An extraordinary trip through 20th century history, grounded in the singular characters occupying a single hotel in 1920s Moscow. Tracing its path from the suffragettes, through the world wars, and on to the bright optimism of communism's surely soon-to-be-radiant future, this is a fascinating tale of exiles and emigres, zealots and dreamers, brought to thrumming life by an extraordinary cache of private letters, and Casey's superb and propulsive portraiture. A historical, and humane, tour de forceSéamas O’Reilly