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“Problemski Hotel is an extremely fascinating book in which the daily life of asylum-seekers is related in an inimitable way . . . A profound portrayal of a group of people with no future.”—De Standaard der Letteren
A comic novel on a very serious subject. Dimitri Verhulst, an investigative journalist, had himself locked up in the asylum-seekers center at Arendonk for several days for a Flemish magazine. He then wrote a magazine article, but the experience would not let go of him. He wrote this comic, unabashedly politically incorrect novel, which is told from the perspective of asylum-seeker Bipul Masli, a press photographer from Somalia. The action takes place in an asylum-seekers center in Belgium in the final weeks of 2001.
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Dimitri Verhulst made his debut in 1999 with 'De kamer hiernaast/The Room Next Door' (Contact), a volume of short stories. His use of language is direct and he possesses a strong sense of humor, albeit a highly cynical one. Survivalist humor.
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By turns humorous...disturbing and painful, it is related in a satirical, politically incorrect manner as fiction... An important book. -- The Bookseller, November 26, 2004
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- PublisherMarion Boyars Publishers Ltd
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0714531103
- ISBN 13 9780714531106
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages150
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. We're all familiar with television and newspaper coverage on asylum seekers. But what really goes on behind the gates of a detention centre is less well known. Dimitri Verhulst, an investigative journalist, had himself locked up in the asylum seekers centre at Arendonk for several days for the Flemish magazine Deus ex Machina. He then wrote a magazine article, but the experience would not let go of him. He lived with people whose days and dreams are full of the horrors they have endured, the humiliating conditions in the centre, the contact with the human smugglers, and the hopeless attempts to reach England - frequently in cargo containers where they are in danger of suffocation. The result is an unabashedly politically incorrect novel, Problemski Hotel. Told from the perspective of asylum seeker, Bipul Masli, a photographer for the press from Somalia, the action takes place in an asylum seekers centre in Belgium, in the final weeks of 2001.We are given a series of incidents in the lives of the asylum seekers - the man who tries unsuccessfully to get a wife through a dating agency, the prisoner who writes a spoof guidebook extolling the virtues of the centre (this is the Hotel of the book's title), and more tragically, the woman who bears a child and then murders the baby rather than bring new life into the asylum centre. Photographer Bipul Masli once produced an almost perfect image with his photograph of a dying child on a rubbish heap, but his own life is far from perfect. Holed up in the Belgium asylum centre nicknamed Problemski Hotel, Bipul knows he must escape before he too becomes just another tragic victim of war-torn lands. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780714531106
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