„A brilliant satire that takes aim at our fragile class system and deals it a fatal blow.“
„Esquire“
Keith and Kit Collins, newlyweds from a small California town, arrive at the luxurious, iconic Pink Hotel in Los Angeles for their honeymoon. Very soon, however, it becomes clear that the husband is actually scheming to secure the position of assistant manager there at any cost—even if it means losing his wife, though he is unaware of it.
After wildfires engulf many parts of the city and its surroundings and violent riots break out, the hotel closes its doors to outsiders. Keith and Kit find themselves trapped between the super-rich, eccentric guests and the anxious, exhausted staff, forced to cater to their every perverse whim. As tensions rise rapidly, this feast during a plague threatens to turn into a disaster, after which no one’s life will ever be the same…
Often compared to the blockbuster film *Parasite*, *The Pink Hotel* is at once a social satire, a love story, a farewell to the glamour of old Hollywood, and a requiem for our planet. In this tantalizing, provocative, and scathing novel, American author Liska Jacobs leads readers down a sort of rabbit hole to reveal the often terrifying extremes born of class division and indifference toward the world around us. But also to pose the burning question of whether money really can buy everything—or, in fact, nothing at all…
