Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, International Fiction, Adult
ISBN: 9781405980722
Published: May 2026
Imprint: Penguin
Page Extent: 256
Format: Paperback
RRP 275.00

Hotel World

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About the book

25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION INCLUDING A NEW PREFACE FROM THE AUTHOR

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

A masterful, exuberant novel from the author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal Quartet

Five people: four are living, three are strangers, two are sisters, one is dead. In her highly acclaimed and ambitious book, the brilliant Scottish writer Ali Smith brings alive five unforgettable characters and traces their intersecting lives.

This is 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 . ....

About the Author

Ali Smith

Ali Smith

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of several novels and short story collections including, The Accidental, Hotel World, How to Be Both and the Seasonal Quartet. She has been four times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, has won the Goldsmiths Prize, Orwell Prize, Costa Best Novel Award and the Women’s Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.

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