Random Things Tours: Hotel Arcadia by Sunny Singh

 

Sam, a talented journalist, famous for her outstanding pictures of dead people, is checking in a luxury hotel for spending some relaxing time. The manager of the hotel, Abhi, is a young man who struggled hard to comply to his parents expectations. The peace and relaxation of the five-star hotel is broken by a terrorist attack, that will challenge everyone to act differently. During those terrible times, Sam together with Abhi, will bond with a third person, a small boy, found alive under a heap of corpses, including his parents´.

Hotel Arcadia by journalist and author Sunny Singh touches upon a terrible topic of our times: human solidarity in the eve of horrible events. Placed in an unnamed city, the events, as horrible as they are, serve as background for forging human bonds and solidarity, reconsidering questions without answers about human condition and humanity in general.

Terrorism is an ubiquous reality of our modern times. Almost every society may have at least within one generation the memory of a terrorist attack. But humans can go beyond the inhumanity of some. They can raise questions and help each other, work together to bring more sense to a world that some want to annihilate. 

Hotel Arcadia is a sad lesson of humanity and resilience, bringing meaning and hope for the future. A book that will for sure think about for a long time in the next days and weeks.

Rating: 4 stars

Disclaimer: Book offered as part of the book tour but the opinions are, as usual, my own