Hotel World

by Ali Smith

Money

In Hotel World, money symbolizes human connection and disconnection, while also revealing how economic transactions can carry emotional and moral weight. The novel frequently returns to characters who exist at the margins of economic…

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Watches and Clocks

Watches and clocks in Hotel World represent time’s power to structure, distort, and ultimately fail to describe life and death. The plot is triggered when Sara, a teenage hotel worker, dies in an accident…

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