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* LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 *
* A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK MARCH 2025 *
'A gripping, Kafkaesque foray into an all-too-plausible future' JENNIFER EGAN
'So cleverly conceived, so relevant, that everyone should read it and sweat' THE TIMES
'Extraordinary' RUMAAN ALAM
'Absolutely unputdownable' SANDRA NEWMAN
Sara is returning home from a conference abroad when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside at the airport. Using data from her dreams, their algorithm has determined that she is at imminent risk of harming her husband. For his safety, she must be transferred to a retention centre, and kept under observation for twenty-one days.
But as Sara arrives to be monitored alongside other dangerous dreamers, she discovers that with every deviation from the facility's strict and ever-shifting rules, their stays can be extended – and that getting home to her family is going to cost much more than just three weeks of good behaviour.
Then, one day, a new resident arrives, disrupting the order of the facility and leading Sara on a collision course with the very companies that have deprived her of her freedom.
The Dream Hotel is a gripping speculative mystery about the seductive dangers of the technologies that are supposed to make our lives easier. As terrifying as it is inventive, it explores how well we can ever truly know those around us – even with the most invasive surveillance systems in place.
Product details
Published | 04 Mar 2025 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 336 |
ISBN | 9781526687173 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Well-written, meticulously conceived, richly characterised and terrifying as hell. It's just close enough to be imaginable ... She's a master storyteller, Lalami, and I can't work out why she isn't better known. The Dream Hotel just made the long-list for The Women's Prize, so hopefully she will be soon
Pandora Sykes, Books and Bits
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A gripping new novel ... Intriguing
Economist
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The Dream Hotel is so cleverly conceived, so relevant, that everyone should read it and sweat ... It gave me a lot to chew on. Next time I download an app, I'll be scrutinising the terms of service. Because any of us can fall foul of the algorithm
The Times
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In the current political and technological climate and the seemingly endless colonisation of data, Lalami has managed to tap into the human psyche on a level that everybody can relate to. The Dream Hotel can deservedly and comfortably sit somewhere between Phillip K Dick's Minority Report and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. A powerhouse of a book that will live long in the memory
Buzz
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Addictive
Sunday Post
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A captivating imaginative feat, taking our familiar world and carefully nudging it just a few degrees closer to the nightmarishly plausible consequences of constant, inescapable surveillance
Irish Times