Hotel World
Synopsis
Five people: four are living, three are strangers, two are sisters, one is dead. Hotel World takes us through a night in the life of five people’s very different worlds. Luxurious for some, but a long drop for others, Hotel World checks us in to the smooth plush world of the Global. But is it the kind of place you want to spend the rest of your life in? Forget room service. This is a life-affirming book about death and a death-affirming book about life: alchemy of opposite worlds colliding to make a modern parable of connection and indifference and in the end a defence of love. Checkout is at noon.
Author Biography
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in August 1962. She won the Saltire First Book Award and a Scottish Arts Council Award in 1995 for her first collection of stories, Free Love. Her first novel, Like, was published in 1997 and her second collection of stories, Other Stories and Other Stories, in 1999. Hotel World, her second novel, was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize for Fiction and Orange Prize for Fiction. Her latest novel, The Accidental, was shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize in 2005. She lives in Cambridge.
