Zenith Hotel by Oscar Coop-Phane - ISBN: 9781909807501
Hardcover
A street prostitute’s raw, human story of loneliness and fleeting kindness.

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  • Hardcover

    128 pages

  • Release Date

    15 March 2014

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Summary

I’m a street prostitute. Not a call girl or anything. No, a real street whore, with stiletto heels and menthol cigarettes. Narrator Nanou gives a detailed account of her day, from the moment she wakes up with a foul taste in her mouth, in her sordid rented room, until the minute she crawls back into her bed at night to sleep. Interwoven with her story are portraits of her clients. Oscar Coop-Phane invents an astonishing cast of original and deeply human characters – losers, defeated by the wo…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781909807501
ISBN-10:1909807508
Author:Oscar Coop-Phane, Ros Schwartz
Publisher:Quercus Publishing
Imprint:Arcadia Books
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:128
Release Date:15 March 2014
Weight:160g
Dimensions:180mm x 118mm x 16mm
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Critics Review

“The novel unfolds with a sympathetic clarity that refuses to shy away from both the harsh realities of life and the bits of gentleness and hope that can be found among the shadows.” – World Lit. Today “World Lit. Today”

About The Author

Oscar Coop-Phane

Oscar Coop-Phane was born in 1988. He left home at 16 with dreams of becoming a painter and at 20 moved to Berlin where he spent a year writing and reading classics. There he wrote Zenith Hotel and then Tomorrow, Berlin. He now lives in Brussels, where he is working on his next novel.

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