A Room on the Garden Side, written in 1956, is set in the author’s beloved Ritz hotel in Paris, at the end of Nazi occupation
It may sound like many other Ernest Hemingway stories – with themes of Paris, wartime, battle talk over a bottle of wine – but A Room on the Garden Side, a story written by the American novelist in 1956, is set to be published for the first time.
Not seen by many beyond scholars and academics over the last six decades, the story takes place in the Ritz hotel and is narrated by a character called Robert, who shares the author’s own nickname, Papa. Robert and his entourage of soldiers, who are all due to leave the city the next day, drink, quote Baudelaire and debate “the dirty trade of war”.
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