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    Epochal emissary

    May 01, 2022 2 minutes
    by HELENA WIŚNIEWSKA BROW

    GRAND HOTEL EUROPA, by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer (Fourth Estate, $35) [out May 4]

    When Grand Hotel Europa was published in 2018 in the Netherlands, its depiction of life in a continent with its best behind it struck a chord with local readers.

    “Europe is drowning in its history,” author Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer warned. “There’s so

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