Ali Smith

Discover the unforgettable finale to Ali Smith's dazzling literary tour-de-forceIn the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble.Meanwhile the world's in meltdown - and the real meltdown hasn't even started yet. In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they're living on borrowed time.This is a story about people on the brink of change. They're family, but they think they're strangers. So: where does family begin? And what do people who think they've got nothing in common have in common?Summer.'Smith's seasonal quartet of novels is a bold and brilliant experiment' Independent'The novel's hopeful message about the healing power of friendship ensures the quartet ends on a feel-good note' Sunday Times

*Premio Llibreter 2019 *N.º 2 de los Mejores Libros de Ficción del Año (El Cultural) *N.º 3 de los Mejores Libros de Ficción del Año (La Vanguardia) La primer novela del exitoso Cuarteto Estacional de Ali Smith es una meditacion sobre un mundo cada vez mas limitado y exclusivo, sobre la riqueza y el valor, sobre lo que significa la cosecha. Es la primera entrega de su cuarteto estacional: cuatro libros independientes, separados pero interconectados y ciclicos (como son las estaciones); y nos hace reflexionar sobre el propio tiempo. ¿Quienes somos? ¿De que estamos hechos? Esta es una novela sobre el envejecimiento y el tiempo y el amor y las historias mismas.

«Y ahora os hablaré de cuando yo era una chica, dice nuestro abuelo». Así comienza esta novela en la que Ali Smith nos vuelve a sorprender, en esta ocasión revisitando las Metamorfosis de Ovidio. La

La historia universal reúne doce historias que recorren un año completo. Ali Smith es una de las mejores escritoras del Reino Unido. Este libro, en el que nos encontramos con algunos de sus mejores textos, contiene doce cuentos en los que el amor, la tristeza y, muy especialmente, los libros y los libreros son los protagonistas. Doce cuentos que recorren un año completo, comenzando en febrero, el mes en que transcurre el primero, La historia universal, y terminando en enero, con el relato El principio de las cosas. En algunos cuentos se menciona el mes especificamente, en otros solo se hace una referencia a la estacion. Las estaciones son una imagen recurrente en los cuentos, como tambien lo son los libros y las plantas, sobre todo, los arboles. Historias unicas que se entrelazan en un laberinto de coincidencias, oportunidades, conexiones perdidas y reencontradas.

En los cuentos de AMOR LIBRE asoma el deseo, el recuerdo, la ambigüedad sexual y la imaginación. A la desnuda luz del trastorno, las personas que lo padecen o lo descubren siguen hallando conexiones,

The dazzling second novel in Ali Smith's essential Seasonal Quartet -- from the Baileys Prize-winning, Man Booker-shortlisted author of Autumn and How to be bothWinter? Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. The shortest days, the longest nights. The trees are bare and shivering. The summer's leaves? Dead litter. The world shrinks; the sap sinks. But winter makes things visible. And if there's ice, there'll be fire. In Ali Smith's Winter, lifeforce matches up to the toughest of the seasons. In this second novel in her acclaimed Seasonal cycle, the follow-up to her sensational Autumn, Smith's shape-shifting quartet of novels casts a merry eye over a bleak post-truth era with a story rooted in history, memory and warmth, its taproot deep in the evergreens: art, love, laughter. It's the season that teaches us survival. Here comes Winter.

'Her best book yet, a dazzling hymn to hope, uniting the past and the present with a chorus of voices' Observer 'A story of our times... Savour it, because there is just one instalment left' Evening Standard 'Spring weaves a story around the most pressing issues of our time... Smith tells stories in a voice you can't help but listen to' The Times From the bestselling author of Autumn and Winter, as well as the Baileys Prize-winning How to be both, comes the next installment in the remarkable, once-in-a-generation masterpiece, the Seasonal Quartet What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in modern times?

How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's a child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real - and all life's givens get given a second chance.

"Raccontare e amare. Il racconto e un gesto d'amore. Ali Smith lo sa bene, e le sue storie di coppie che si scambiano la promessa di un passato condiviso sono narrate in punta di penna. Emergono uomini e donne passionali, umani, fragili, spaventati, tutti inscritti nel mistero e nella fatica di vivere. "

"Libro d'esordio dell'autrice di ""Like"", ""Voci fuori campo"" e ""Hotel world"". Dodici racconti che declinano l'amore in una miriade di sfumature sentimentali e sensuali. Si trovano allora una teenager che perde la verginita durante un viaggio ad Amsterdam tra le braccia di una prostituta; la giovane donna che per amore della letteratura lascia al vento le pagine della sua biblioteca; i ricordi di un'ardente passione evocati da un timido fotografo; la descrizione di un'attrazione struggente, non corrisposta, che si consuma mentre scorrono sullo schermo fotogrammi dei film piu celebri della storia del cinema. "

Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances? Ali Smith's re-mix of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled and sold. It is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, a story of puns and doubles, reversals and revelations. Funny and fresh, poetic and political, Girl meets boy is a myth of metamorphosis for the modern world.

Panning in on the Norfolk holiday home of the Smart family one hot summer, this novel is about the ways that seemingly chance encounters irrevocably transform our understanding of ourselves, which is also an exploration of the nature of truth, and the role of fate.

"The First Person and Other Stories" effortlessly appeals to our hearts, heads and funny bones Always intellectually playful, but also very moving and funny, Smith explores the ways and whys of storytelling In one, a middle-aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her gauche fourteen-year-old self... "The First Person and Other Stories" nos llega sin esfuerzo al corazón, a la cabeza y a nuestros entusiasmados huesos Siempre dotada de un humor inteligente, pero también conmovedora y divertida, Smith explora los modos y maneras del relato En uno, una mujer de mediana edad mantiene una emocionante conversación con su propio yo a los catorce años de edad...

This is a Stunning retelling by the award-winning author Ali Smith. "Joyful." (Jeanette Winterson). "Pulls you in and doesn't let you go...bold and brilliant." (Jackie Kay). "A glorious wide-awake dream of a book...By the time I finished, my heart was beating and tears stood in my eyes, even as I had the biggest smile written all over my face." (Kirsty Gunn). Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances? Ali Smith's re-mix of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled and sold. It is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, a story of puns and doubles, reversals and revelations. Funny and fresh, poetic and political, here is a tale of change for the modern world.

Grandi classici, raccontati da grandi nomi della letteratura cosi come potrebbero raccontarli ai figli o nipoti, una sera, nel loro salotto."Save the story": frutto della collaborazione tra Scuola Holden e Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso, e anche un ciclo di reading affidati a grandi scrittori presentato all'Auditorium Parco della Musica e coprodotto con la Fondazione Musica per Roma. Non un'operazione di riscrittura, ma un appassionato omaggio ai libri che piu abbiamo amato.Eta di lettura: da 8 anni.

Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy and the colour-hit of Pop Art - via a bit of very contemporary skulduggery and skull-diggery - Autumn is a witty excavation of the present by the past. The novel is a stripped-branches take on popular culture, and a meditation, in a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, what harvest means.Autumn is the first installment in Ali Smith's novel quartet Seasonal: four standalone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as the seasons are), exploring what time is, how we experience it, and the recurring markers in the shapes our lives take and in our ways with narrative.From the imagination of the peerless Ali Smith comes a shape-shifting series, wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories, and a story about ageing and time and love and stories themselves.

Imagine you give a dinner party and a friend of a friend brings a stranger to your house as his guest. He seems pleasant enough. Imagine that this stranger goes upstairs halfway through the dinner party and locks himself in one of your bedrooms and won't come out. Imagine you can't move him for days, weeks, months. If ever. This is what Miles does, in a chichi house in the historic borough of Greenwich, in the year 2009-10, in There but for the. Who is Miles, then? And what does it mean, exactly, to live with other people? Sharply satirical and sharply compassionate, with an eye to the meanings of the smallest of words and the slightest of resonances, There but for the fuses disparate perspectives in a crucially communal expression of identity and explores our very human attempts to navigate between despair and hope, enormity and intimacy, cliche and grace. Ali Smith's dazzling new novel is a funny, moving book about time, memory, thought, presence, quietness in a noisy time, and the importance of hearing ourselves think.