Grand Hotel EuropaTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Ilja Leonard Pfeijffers moving and addictive masterpiece of European identity, nostalgia, and the end of an era. A masterpiece: grandiose style, brilliant and rich. It will defy the ages Trouw (The Netherlands) The love of my life lives in my past. That is, despite the alliteration, a terrible sentence to write. I do not want to come to the conclusion that, as it is the case for the hotel where I am staying and the