The Hotel Sapiens is a hospital and a medical research institution, for the building’s inhabitants are studied as if they were carriers of a rare disease.Īnd they are indeed carriers of a serious, incurable disease: a disease named humanity.Īnother disturbingly funny and profoundly wise book from the masterly Finlandia Prize winning author Leena Krohn, in which the stories and encounters of the inhabitants of the hotel form a study of humanity. It is a refugee camp and an evacuation camp because those who come, or are brought there are fleeing a world that probably no longer exists. It is also a training centre and a museum. This motley crew is constantly observed by machines whose intelligence and morals have already exceeded those of their creators. It is an odd group that lives at the Hotel Sapiens: a blind ophthalmologist, an Ordinary Person, a conspiracy theorist who has observed the clouds, the Higgs boson, a therapist who has lost her mental health and Peik, who is in correspondence with his dead daughter. Rights sold: Croatia, Hangar 7 Denmark, Jensen & Dalgaard World French, Zulma Hungary, Typotex Japan, Nishimura Reading material: Finnish original, English sample At the Hotel Sapiens no one is OK, and the surrounding world appears to have come to the end of its road.
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