Grand Hotel
Baum, Vicki![Grand Hotel](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/188/18888671/CHSBZCOP0318888671.jpg)
A grand hotel in the center of 1920s Berlin serves as a microcosm of the modern world in Vicki Baum's celebrated novel, a Weimar-era best seller that retains all its verve and luster today. Among the guests of the hotel is Doctor Otternschlag, a World War I veteran whose face has been sliced in half by a shell. Day after day he emerges to read the paper in the lobby, discreetly inquiring at the desk if the letter he's been awaiting for years h...