Rodica Doehnert
Author of Hotel Sacher
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Works by Rodica Doehnert
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- Birthdate
- 1960
- Gender
- female
- Birthplace
- Bucarest, Romania
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The story begins in the very late 19th century with Anna Sacher taking over the Hotel Sacher in Vienna after the death of her husband. From the title, one would think the story would be about her time as manager of this luxury hotel, but it's not. The hotel and Anna play a very minor part in this historical fiction novel. To sum it up quickly, it's about people being fickle and behaving badly! I'm not even sure what the purpose of some of the characters in the novel was, and there was a plethora of them! I was hoping to get a sense of Vienna pre WWI, but there was not much in the way of sensory descriptions, just dialogue. The story takes in WWI, but only in a minor way. 274 pages… (more)
The story based on the Austria-Hungarian Empire during late 1800 to early 1900. The characters are well defined and the limitations placed on female characters reflects the period of restraining. I enjoyed the story
Didn't finish. Too many characters to keep track of easily, too much telling and not showing. Couldn't get into it.
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- Works
- 4
- Members
- 157
- Popularity
- #133,743
- Rating
- 3.3
- Reviews
- 10
- ISBNs
- 13
- Languages
- 3
The story is decent, but it's never fully fleshed out. There are hints of more to come, but then it's over and nothing ever really happened. I typically enjoy historical fiction and while I did enjoy the step back in time, I didn't appreciate the lack of a better ending.