- Booker Prize 2001 · Shortlist
Hotel World
Hotel World
Ali Smith (born 1962)
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Written in EnglishHotel World
Penguin · United Kingdom · 23 April 2026 · Paperback · 256 pages
Hotel World
Hamish Hamilton · United Kingdom · 2001 · 236 pages
Hotel World
Anchor · United States · 15 January 2002 · Paperback · 256 pages
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Sarah Wilby, nineteen, a swimmer newly in love with a girl from a shop, starts work as a chambermaid in a hotel in an English city and dies on a bet, squeezing into the dumbwaiter and falling down its shaft. Her spirit drifts around the world she has left, trying to remember what she never knew. The other voices belong to the living: Lise, the bored receptionist who later falls ill; a homeless woman Lise lets into a room; a journalist staying at the hotel; and Clare, Sarah's younger sister, who comes to look down the shaft. Their paths cross over one night in the hotel.
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- Novel
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- United Kingdom
- First published
- 2001
- Author's age
- 39 when first published
- ISBN
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9780241141090 (Hamish Hamilton, United Kingdom)
9780385722100 (Anchor, United States)
9781405980722 (Penguin, United Kingdom)
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