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Compared to the hit film "Parasite", "The Pink Hotel" is at once a social satire, a love story, a farewell to the glitter of Old Hollywood, and a requiem for our planet. In this seductive, provocative and caustic novel, American writer Liska Jacobs leads readers down a kind of rabbit hole to reveal the often horrifying extremes born of class division and disregard for the world around us. But also to raise the burning question of whether money can really buy everything, or actually nothing...

About the book

Keith and Kit Collins, a newlywed couple from a small California town, arrive at the majestic, iconic Pink Hotel in Los Angeles for their honeymoon. It soon becomes clear, however, that the husband is really after the position of assistant manager there at any price — even if it means losing his wife, though he doesn't realize it. After large swaths of the city and its surroundings are engulfed by wildfires and violent riots break out, the hotel closes its doors to outsiders. Keith and Kit are trapped between the super-rich eccentrics and the frantic, exhausted staff forced to cater to their every depraved whim. As the tension rises sharply, this feast during a plague threatens to turn into a catastrophe from which no one's life will ever be the same …