Five women: four are alive, three are foreigners, two are sisters, one is dead ?they have all been in this hotel. Their hopes and disappointments roam freely through the hallways, sheltered by its walls as each crosses the path of the other without ever giving a thought to the sheer coincidence of their encounters. Hotel World invites us to join them for a night in their existe...
Five women: four are alive, three are foreigners, two are sisters, one is dead ?they have all been in this hotel. Their hopes and disappointments roam freely through the hallways, sheltered by its walls as each crosses the path of the other without ever giving a thought to the sheer coincidence of their encounters. Hotel World invites us to join them for a night in their existence. In this novel, opposite worlds collide, resulting in the affirmation of love. Smith is also known for The Accidental named Novel of the Year by Britain's prestigious Whitbread Book Awards.
She put the form down on the bed. She watched Lise breathe. She watched the nothing happening in the room. She would keep watch until Lise woke up.
She leaned forward to put the back of her hand against her daughter's forehead, to test her temperature. Gently she lifted the hair off Lise's face, tucked it behind her daughter’s ear, away from her eyes. She sat back again, up against the wall of the room.
Ah,love. (查看原文)
Lise's mother opened the door; it creaked again. But Lise hadn't woken. Quiet she crossed the carpet to plug the telephone lead into the wall-socket; quiet she sat down on the carpet, leaned against the wall and watched her daughter, the fearless child Lise, the imperturbable twelve-year-old, unreadable sixteen-year-old, unruffleable girl, impenetrable adult, Lise. Lise lay in the bed. She was pale, crumpled, frowning, dark, sleeping. She breathed unevenly. (查看原文)
根據 Caroline Edwards 在《烏托邦與當代英國小說》(Utopia and the Contemporary British Novel) 中對 「網絡小說」(或譯作「交織的小說」，原文 “networked novel”) 的討論，阿里·史密斯 Ali Smith 的《飯店世界》(Hotel World, 2001) 和珍妮特·溫特森 Jeanette Winterso...
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人民文学出版社2002版
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