Der außergewöhnliche Roman der jungen schottischen Autorin wurde für den Booker und Orange Prize 2001 nominiert. Im Mittelpunkt: Ein Hotel und das Schicksal 5 ganz unterschiedlicher Menschen.
This novel, which was nominated for the Booker and Orange prize awards in 2001, tells the story of a hotel and the destiny of five different people.
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of many novels, including most recently Autumn, Winter and Spring in the 'Seasonal' quartet. Her 2014 novel How to be both won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel of the Year Award. She has also been shortlisted once for the Orwell Prize, twice for the Orange Prize and four times for the Man Booker Prize, among many other prizes. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.