The White Hotel

Synopsis

It is a dream of electrifying eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman, Lisa Erdman, to her analyst, Sigmund Freud.  Her narrative is a horrifying yet restrained narrative of the Holocaust.

Author Biography

D M Thomas was born in Redruth, Cornwall, in 1935.  For many years he was a teacher and lecturer, while writing and publishing poetry. In 1979 he became a full-time writer. He has published seven collections of verse, including The Puberty Tree; thirteen novels, including The White Hotel which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.