![]() ![]() Also staying at the hotel are the gauche, flamboyantly wealthy, but vulgar Iris Pusey and her middle aged daughter Jennifer, who is somewhat man-hungry seducing the hotel staff and fellow guest Mr. ![]() At the hotel she writes letters to her ex-lover David, which tell the story of their relationship, but they are never sent. Plot synopsis Ī romance novelist, Edith Hope (who writes under the name Vanessa Wilde) goes to stay at a Swiss Hotel on a lakeside to get away from an ill-fated romance with David, a married auctioneer and having jilted another man on the steps of the wedding venue to the disgust of her friends. It was directed by Giles Foster, produced by Sue Birtwistle with music by Carl Davis and cinematography by Kenneth MacMillan. It stars Anna Massey and Denholm Elliott and was released in 1986 as an episode of the BBC's Screen Two series. Hotel du Lac is a television version of the 1984 Booker prize-winning novel by Anita Brookner. ![]()
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![]() ![]() While her parents both read widely in a variety of genres and encouraged her writing, Lalami has said that they thought she needed to study a profession other than writing. These images invaded my imaginary world to such an extent that I never thought they came from an alien place." "The characters’ names, their homes, their cities, their lives were wholly different from my own," she explained, "and yet, because of my constant exposure to them, they had grown utterly familiar. ![]() According to Lalami, all the children's books she read as a child were written in French, and she began to write her own stories in French. She spoke Moroccan Arabic at home, and learned Standard Arabic and French in elementary school. Lalami was born in a working-class family in Rabat, Morocco. In 2015 she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her novel The Moor's Account (2014), about Estevanico, which received strong critical praise and won several other awards. Her first novel, composed of linked stories, was published in 2005. She began publishing her writing in 1996. In 1992 Lalami moved to the United States, where she completed a PhD in linguistics at the University of Southern California. After earning her Licence de lettres degree in Morocco, she received a fellowship to study in the United Kingdom (UK), where she earned an MA in linguistics. ![]() Laila Lalami ( Arabic: ليلى العلمي, born 1968) is a Moroccan-American novelist, essayist, and professor. ![]() |