'The Hotel of the Dead Mountaineer' is one of the most striking works of the early period of the Strugatsky brothers' career, a fascinating science fiction detective story in which an elderly, tired policeman, investigating a mysterious crime in a snow-covered mountain hotel, finds himself embroiled in a complex and mysterious story with 'aliens' who have landed on Earth and are doing either good or evil...
Authors: Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
Arkady Natanovich Strugatsky
He was born on August 28, 1925, in Batumi, where his father, Natan Zalmanovich Strugatsky, worked as editor of the newspaper Trudovoy Adjaristan. His mother, Aleksandra Ivanovna Litvitcheva (1901–1981), was a teacher and taught literature.
During the Great Patriotic War, the Strugatsky family was trapped in besieged Leningrad. In January 1942, his father, Natan Zalmanovich Strugatsky, and Arkady were evacuated via the “Road of Life” across Lake Ladoga, while his mother remained in the city with the ill Boris.…
