Troubles: Winner of the 2010 'Lost Man Booker Prize' for Fiction

In 1919, Major Brendan Archer returns from the Great War to claim his fiance, whose family owns the Majestic Hotel in Kilnalough, Ireland. She is strangely altered, however, along with the hotel, which is in spectacular decline. There is unrest in the East, and Ireland itself senses the mounting violence of its "troubles." Winner of the Book Prize.