AtD: Lew steps out

[Mark Kohut]

p. 38 "Was it still Chicago?"..."like the world he had left".....Hotel Esthonia [Estonia Ancient Baltic city foretelling Olde European values
later in AtD?) .....it is an education for Lew...as some mentioned in FW remarks, good books often contain their major themes adumbrated in
their openings.....to be continued.

Can't help but see Murakami expand this alternate world next to ours in 1Q84 AND I get faint memory echoes of Murakami's 
hotel from Hardboiled Wonderland, where he may have first used the trope...............................
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