Atlantic Hotel

by João Gilberto Noll, Adam Morris

2017104 pages

Compared by critics to filmmaker David Lynch--and deeply influenced by Clarice Lispector--Joo Gilberto Noll is esteemed as one of Brazil's living legends. Following the breakthrough success of last year's Quiet Creature on the Corner, Two Lines Press now presents Noll's career-defining work, Atlantic Hotel. Just who narrates the dark and mysterious Atlantic Hotel? First he books a room where a murder has occurred, claiming he's just arrived from the airport. But then he suddenly leaves, telling a cabbie he's an alcoholic headed for detox. After that he hops on an all-night bus across Brazil, where he begins to seduce a beautiful American woman. Next he's recognized as a soap opera actor. Then he impersonates a priest. At length he knocks on a very wrong door in a small town: when it opens he's looking down the barrel of a gun. He falls down unconscious, and when he awakes something terrible is happening to him.