The first volume of a shape-shifting seasonal quartet from Ali Smith about our time, past time, ageing, love and stories themselves
Hotel World
Written by Ali Smith
- Shortlisted
- The Booker Prize 2001
- Published by Hamish Hamilton
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In this masterful and exuberant novel, Scottish author Ali Smith brings to life five unforgettable characters and traces their intersecting lives
Five people: four are living, three are strangers, two are sisters, one is dead. Through her characters’ various stories and voices, Ali Smith delivers a short novel with big themes (time, chance, money, death) but an eye for tiny detail: the taste of dust, the weight of a few coins in the hand, the pleasurable pain of a stone in one’s shoe…
Ali Smith
Ali Smith was born in Inverness, Scotland. She is the author of several critically acclaimed and award-winning novels and short stories
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