The book club on June 28th place at a bookstore cafe and the book discussed was: Estoril (2015) by Serbian author Dejan Tiago-Stanković.
Set in a luxurious grand hotel just outside Lisbon, at the height of the Second World War, Estoril is a delightful and poignant novel about exile, divided loyalties, fear and survival. The hotel's guests include spies, fallen kings, refugees from the Balkans, Nazis, American diplomats and stateless Jews, while the Portuguese secret police broodingly observe the visitors, terrified that their country's neutrality will be compromised.
