{"product_id":"2026200009365-secondhand-the-white-hotel","title":"The White Hotel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA landmark work of postmodern fiction, The White Hotel chronicles the life of Lisa Erdman, a young opera singer whose vivid erotic fantasies and terrifying premonitions lead her into the consulting room of Sigmund Freud himself. D.M. Thomas constructs a dazzling, multi-layered narrative that shifts between verse, prose poetry, and a fabricated Freudian case study, building toward one of the most harrowing and devastating climaxes in twentieth-century literature — the Babi Yar massacre. The novel argues, with visceral force, that the unconscious mind can hold the seeds of historical catastrophe, weaving the personal and the political into a single, unforgettable tapestry. Praised as precise, troubling, brilliant by the Observer, it remains a profoundly unsettling meditation on desire, suffering, and the limits of psychoanalysis in the face of absolute evil.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48887995760859,"sku":"2026200009365-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/029e33a2-ad28-4bfe-a729-fe322862b3df.png?v=1781751901","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200009365-secondhand-the-white-hotel","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}