Estoril
1st Edition
Published on 8. March 2018
352 pages
978-1-78669-814-8 (ISBN)
Description
Set in a luxurious grand hotel just outside Lisbon, at the height of the Second World War, Estoril is a delightful and poignant novel about exile, divided loyalties, fear and survival. The hotel's guests include spies, fallen kings, refugees from the Balkans, Nazis, American diplomats and stateless Jews. The Portuguese secret police broodingly observe the visitors, terrified that their country's neutrality will be compromised.
The novel seamlessly fuses the stories of its invented characters with appearances by historical figures like the ex-King Carol of Romania, the great Polish pianist Jan Paderewski, the British agent Ian Fleming, the Russian chess grandmaster Alexander Alekhine and the French writer and flyer Antoine de St Exupery, who forms a poignant friendship with a young Jewish boy living alone in the hotel.
The novel seamlessly fuses the stories of its invented characters with appearances by historical figures like the ex-King Carol of Romania, the great Polish pianist Jan Paderewski, the British agent Ian Fleming, the Russian chess grandmaster Alexander Alekhine and the French writer and flyer Antoine de St Exupery, who forms a poignant friendship with a young Jewish boy living alone in the hotel.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-78669-814-8 (9781786698148)
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Persons
Born in the former Yugoslavia in 1965, Dejan Tiago-Stankovic is an author and translator. He studied architecture in Belgrade before moving to London. Since 1996 he has lived in Lisbon, translating between his native Serbo-Croatian and Portuguese.
Content
- Intro
- Welcome Page
- About Estoril
- Contents
- Dedication
- The Golden Days of the Riviera
- Things I Invented Myself
- Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome
- Such a Pity
- Drop by for a Chat Some Time
- Chicken Stew
- Possibly Politically Sensitive
- The Tale of the Desert Fox
- Ivan
- It's Just a Word of Warning
- Movie Actor
- Tricycle
- I'd Like to be a Traveller
- Deus Ex Machina
- His Eyes have Something Cold and Cruel about Them
- The Genie from the Lamp
- A Strange Child
- The Iron Crown
- Reviewed by the National Commission for Censorship
- Today is Tomorrow's Yesterday
- Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori
- Everybody Comes to Black's
- Where the Land Ends and the Sea Begins
- It's a Sports Car
- The Grand Casino Estoril
- Quid Pro Quo
- Like a Jewel Lost in the Dark
- Silk Stockings, Three Pairs
- The Incredible, Sad Story of the Sensitive Miss Tonita and Hard Reality
- Always the Same Story
- A Boy Meets a Girl
- At Lunchtime
- Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Stone?
- There are Dead Bodies Inside!
- It is Only with the Heart That One Can See Rightly
- Things have Become A Little Complicated
- Rodriguez
- Half an Hour Before Lunch
- Nine Months
- In Between Two Historic Photographs
- The War is Over
- Chess Players
- Manufacture Nationale De Sèvres
- Oh! Life is so Hard!
- I'm Lucky to have You Close at Hand, My Friend
- Post-Mortem
- Quinta Dos Grilos
- Isaura Married!
- Stockings for Varicose Veins
- Note
- Selected Bibliography
- Soundtrack
- About Dejan Tiago-Stankovic
- An Invitation from the Publisher
- Copyright
