In this sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores love, music and the passage of time. This quintet ranges from Italian piazzas to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the 'hush-hush floor' of an exclusive Hollywood hotel. Along the way we meet young dreamers, café musicians and faded stars, all at some moment of reckoning.
Miss Jane Marple's holiday in London at the well-run, traditional Bertram's Hotel turns out to be more than she bargained for as her suspicions are aroused by some of the guests. Her worst fears are confirmed when the doorman is murdered in strange circumstances. With the help of clever Chief Inspector Davey, who is occupied with the investigation of a series of robberies, the complicated plot is satisfactorily concluded. Rosemary Leach so skillfully chooses voices for the characters that there is no doubt that this is exactly what the author intended each to sound like.
5 days from the life of a luxury hotel in New Orleans in the early 60-ies. "Hotel" takes a critical stance in the civil rights issues of the era. The book is about how little decissions can add up to either good things happening or extremely bad things happening.
English B1 Hotel and Restaurant (With Keys)For TELC
If you want to use this material to practise, it is best if you keep to the times given for each sub-test as in a real examination – e.g. 90 minutes for Reading Comprehension and Language Elements.
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