About the book: 2003 / Ali Smith (born 1962) is one of the most fashionable English writers. The novel “Hotel World” was nominated for the Booker in 2001. Ali Smith’s strange, disconcerting, but at the same time very funny novel is a passport to the chic world of the Global Hotels. “The Hotel is the World” - a book about death, praising life, and a book about life, praising death.