The Two Hotel Francforts by David Leavitt

It is the summer of 1940, and Lisbon is the only natural Port left in Europe. It is a city overcrowded with Exiles, forced there by Hitler's invasion of France; a city filled with spies, with refugees of every nationality, tipping back absinthe to while away the time until they can escape.

In this precarious atmosphere, both glamorous and seedy, two couples awaiting safe passage to New York on the SS Manhattan meet. The Winters, Julia and Pete, are middle-class expatriate Americans fleeing their sedate life in Paris; the Frelengs, Edward and Iris, are elegant, independently wealthy, bohemian. Both are beset by their social and sexual anxieties of their age.

As Europe sinks inexorably into war, the hidden threads which bind these four characters begin to unravel. Volatile and lyrical, sexually and politically charged, David Leavitt's long-awaited new novel of manipulation, secrets and the ways in which people change in exceptional circumstances is an extraordinary work.

Genres: Historical Fiction - LGBT - Portugal - War - Gay - Qieer - Literary Fiction - World War II - WWII
Condition: Very good
Published: 2013 by Bloomsbury
Pages: 257
ISBN: 9781408815151
Weight: 410g