by Peter Mayle · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140238648
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«Hotel Pastis» is the contemporary fiction novel by Peter Mayle, published by Penguin in paperback (320 pages, in English).
Simon Shaw, a recently divorced London advertising executive, buys an old gendarmerie in Provence and, with peculiar neighbours, turns it into a small hotel. Amid the wine, food and local friendships, he tries to start over, but the plans of a criminal just out of prison and sophisticated guests threaten his idyll.
The original title is «Hotel Pastis: A Novel of Provence». The action takes place in the Luberon and the work was published in 1993; this Penguin edition is from 1994.
For readers of contemporary fiction and Provençal stories with humour, food and second chances.
Peter Mayle was a British businessman turned author who moved to France in the 1980s. He wrote a series of bestselling memoirs of his life there, beginning with A Year in Provence (1989).
