Breakfast with the Borgias

by DBC Pierre

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'Hell is other people' A chilling, page-turning Hammer novella by the Booker-Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little. 'Hell is other people.' A chilling, page-turning Hammer novella by the Booker-Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little.The setting- a faded, lonely guesthouse on the Essex coast. Outside, it's dark, and very foggy. Inside there's no phone or internet reception, no connection with the outside world.Enter Ariel Panek, a promising young academic en route from the USA to an important convention in Amsterdam. With his plane grounded by fog at Stanstead, he has been booked in for the night at the guesthouse. Discombobulated and jetlagged, he falls in with a family who appear to be commemorating an event.But this is no ordinary celebration. And this is no ordinary family.As evening becomes night, Panek realises that he has become caught in an insidious web of other people's secrets and lies, a Sartrian hell from which for him there may be no escape.… (more)

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Verhaal over Ariel Panek die vanuit de VS naar een congres in Nederland vliegt. Vanwege dichte mist moet het vliegtuig noodgedwongen in Engeland landen. Ariel wordt ondergebracht in een afgelegen pension aan de kust. Er is geen telefoonbereik en geen internet. Contact met de buitenwereld is niet mogelijk. Zijn vriendin Zeva is ondertussen onderweg naar Amsterdam waar ze elkaar zouden treffen.
In het pension maakt Ariel kennis met een familie die iets lijkt te herdenken, maar wat precies?
Na een aantal bizarre gebeurtenissen besluit Ariel dat hij het pension moet zien te verlaten, maar dat is gemakkelijker gezegd dan gedaan.

Spannend boek van nog geen 200 pagina's, met schrikeffecten als keek je naar een film. Iedereen heeft vast wel eens zo'n droom gehad waar je probeert ergens naar toe te gaan of weg te komen en dat lukt maar niet. Datzelfde gevoel krijg je bij het lezen van dit verhaal. Bizar goed! (

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Cromboek | Sep 21, 2019 |

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'Hell is other people' A chilling, page-turning Hammer novella by the Booker-Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little. 'Hell is other people.' A chilling, page-turning Hammer novella by the Booker-Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little.The setting- a faded, lonely guesthouse on the Essex coast. Outside, it's dark, and very foggy. Inside there's no phone or internet reception, no connection with the outside world.Enter Ariel Panek, a promising young academic en route from the USA to an important convention in Amsterdam. With his plane grounded by fog at Stanstead, he has been booked in for the night at the guesthouse. Discombobulated and jetlagged, he falls in with a family who appear to be commemorating an event.But this is no ordinary celebration. And this is no ordinary family.As evening becomes night, Panek realises that he has become caught in an insidious web of other people's secrets and lies, a Sartrian hell from which for him there may be no escape.

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'Hell is other people.' A chilling, page-turning Hammer novella by the Booker-Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little.
The setting: a faded, lonely guesthouse on the Essex coast. Outside, it's dark, and very foggy. Inside there's no phone or internet reception, no connection with the outside world.
Enter Ariel Panek, a promising young academic en route from the USA to an important convention in Amsterdam. With his plane grounded by fog at Stanstead, he has been booked in for the night at the guesthouse. Discombobulated and jetlagged, he falls in with a family who appear to be commemorating an event.
But this is no ordinary celebration. And this is no ordinary family.
As evening becomes night, Panek realises that he has become caught in an insidious web of other people's secrets and lies, a Sartrian hell from which for him there may be no escape.

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