Munyaya iyi yemahotera sehutiziro kubva kuchokwadi kubva pakadzika kudzika kweiyo yakagadzikana isingaite imba, ini ndinogara ndichirangarira rakagadzirwa hotera gwara. Oscar Sipan. Makamuri ehotera umo mavara anopfuura neasina nguva yekugara munzvimbo iyoyo uye ane zvipoko zvinosara ipapo, achitarisira anotevera anouya.
Munyori anofanira kugara achipotera muhotera achitsvaga kurudziro. Nekuti ndiko kune vane mbiri uye pasina vanhu vanozorora zviroto zvavo mukuchinja kudzamara cheki ichivakurudzira kuti vatangezve hupenyu hwavo "chaiyo". Vanhu vakasiyana-siyana vanosiya ipapo zviratidziro zvisina kujeka zvezvavaizoda kuva pakati pekushanya kwebhizinesi, kupfuura nyaya dzerudo, masimpoziyamu kana makonzati erock.
Inguva yemunyori weprose yemagetsi saLeonard Pfeijffer mubhuku rino. Zvingangove lyrical ndima, ehuviralism yakashandurwa kuita visceral kana zvemweya soneti. Nekuti zvese zvinokwana mukamuri rehotera kubva kune yakanyanyisa hangover kusvika kune hutsotsi kana kumhan'ara kwaita manotsi ekukurumidza emufambi akachinja apo neapo mudetembi...
Paanenge achitsvaga bhuku pamusoro pekushanyirwa kwevanhu vakawanda, munyori anonzi Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer anotambura nekurambana kunorwadza uye anosarudza kusiya zvose kuti agadzirise ndangariro dzake. Nzvimbo yaanosarudza kuenda pamudyandigere iGrand Hotel Europa, chivako chine mbiri yakapfuura uye remangwana risina chokwadi rinogarwa nevanhu vakasiyana-siyana.
Munyori anozvigadzirira basa rekuvakazve mukunyora hukama hwake hunoputika naClio, munyori wenhoroondo weItaly ane dzidziso ine hushingi pamusoro pependi yekupedzisira yaCaravaggio, uye sezvaanofambira mberi mubasa rake, kufarira kwake zvakavanzika zvehotera kunowedzera. Hurukuro nevamwe vaenzi, panguva iyi, dzinomutungamira kuti afunge nezvekuderera kweOld Continent.
"Grand Hotel Europa" ibhuku rakakosha rinotaura nezve "sotto voce" nevanofunga uye vanyori vekuEurope, kubva kuVirgil, Horace kana Seneca, kuburikidza naDante, kuna Thomas Mann naGeorge Steiner.
Iwe unogona ikozvino kutenga chinyorwa Grand Hotel Europa naIlja Leonard Pfeijffer, pano:
