We first meet the protagonist Futh on the ferry that is taking him to Germany for a walking holiday. It's a repeat of an aborted holiday he took with his father, just after his mother has left them to return to her native America.
Futh has plans to walk a circular route along the Rhine; he has arranged for his suitcase to follow him each evening to his hotel. Whilst walking he ruminates on his parents, and his own failed marriages. Meanwhile, at Hellhaus, the first hotel on his itinerary, another drama is playing out between the owners Ester and Bernard.
I enjoyed this book, with it's atmosphere of lurking menace and fatalistic ending.
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