Hotelli Everest

by Irwin Allan Sealy, Tarmo Haarala (Translator)

Intialaisen I. Allan Sealyn tarina kaipauksesta ja saavuttamattomasta rakkaudesta: Everestiin tiensä löytävien kohtalot herättävät uinuvan majatalon uudelleen henkiin.

Hotelli Everest on Intian viimevuosien myydyimpiä kirjoja

Genres: Fiction, India, Novels

278 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

One of India's post-Independence writers, Allan Sealy was born in 1951 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. After schooling in Lucknow, he attended Delhi University, then studied and worked in the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Now he spends much of his time in Dehra Dun. His eye for place and his evocative descriptions are apparent in all his novels and in his travelogue, From Yukon to Yukatan. Sealy's first novel, The Trotter-Nama: A Chronicle, is a tale of seven generations of an Anglo-Indian family. His more recent novel, The Everest Hotel: A Calendar, gained him an international following after being short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1998.

According to Alex Tickell of the University of York, Allan Sealy has introduced "a memorable cast of characters in The Everest Hotel [and] his talents are equally evident in the luminous descriptive passages in the text, and in his feel for the lighter brushwork of natural detail, and shades of color and texture."

Allan Sealy has won a number of awards for his writing including the Commonwealth Best Book Award in 1989, Sahitya Akademi Award in 1991 and the Crossword Book Award in 1998.

The Library of Congress has four works by him.

Reviews

[Zaki Hasan]

an interesting old man selling used books in Nehru place, Delhi recomnded this book from a massive pile..Come to think of it he wasnt really selling the books but trying to disseminate a message for the love of stories close to him. A moving story set in Himalayas. loved reading it.

[Harish P]

Splendid narration

[Corina Kornelias]

love it.............

[N R]

Most sentences needed to be read twice! Subtle, full of figurative allusions, entendres and such. Characters are captivating.

[Saumyadeb Dasgupta]

Picked this gem from the DCMS library in CR Park.The narration in this book is so good at places that it's hard to believe that such means of relaying communication exists. Throughout the book all the characters felt relatable, real and believable. The descriptions of Drummondgunj were so realistic that it was hard to acknowledge and accept those. I am floored even though I personally didn't enjoy how the story was concluded. I can't recommend this enough. I. Allen Sealy, take a bow!

[Rajat Narula]

A year spent in an old Dehradun hotel. The backdrop - Uttarakhand agitation. Sister Ritu, Jed, Brij, mingle and create a story but barely so. Beautiful description of weather, a moving last scene, but not much else.

[Praveen Mathew]

There is something to be said about the language, it's flowery at times, but abruptly short to the point, it's like reading a sentence and having to stop suddenly. Made sense, but not to my liking, read around 100 pages, but nothing interesting was happening, so giving up.

[Surkhraj]

A freind gave me this book on my birthday.... there is something uneasy about it but it still is a good read

[Ravinder]

Very Good.

[Salini]

I loved the evocative descriptions and the novel way in which he breathes life into the most inane of things. Worth the read.