This is a potent novel about life, death, and the afterlife. Toying with horror tropes and conventions, and displaying shades of authors such as Julio Cortázar, van den Berg turns Clare’s journey into a dreamlike exploration of grief. Though she knows it’s impossible, Clare soon becomes convinced her husband has somehow been resurrected and begins searching for him. The Third Hotel is a story of grief and love that will haunt your dreams: EW review Horror movie tropes inform a widow's struggle to distinguish reality and fantasy in in Laura van den. Shortly after arriving at the festival, between screenings and excursions close to the novel’s titular hotel, Clare spies a man from afar who looks exactly like Richard. The couple had planned to attend the Festival of New Latin American Cinema together, specifically to see Cuba’s first horror film, a zombie picture named Revolución Zombi, and Clare intends on seeing the trip through in Richard’s honor. In her mysterious and engrossing second novel, van den Berg ( Find Me) tells the story of recently widowed elevator sales rep Clare, who travels to Havana after her horror-film scholar husband, Richard, is killed in a hit-and-run near their home in Upstate New York.
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