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Durante una cena in un'elegante casa di Greenwich un amico di un amico dei padroni di casa si alza da tavola e non torna più. Si scopre che si è chiuso nella stanza degli ospiti e non ha la minima intenzione di uscire. Perché ha preso questa decisione? Cosa spera di ottenere? E soprattutto chi è Miles Garth? Gen, la padrona di casa, si mette alla ricerca di amici e parenti del suo ospite indesiderato che possano convincerlo a desistere dal suo proposito inspiegabile. Comincia così una carrellata di personaggi, ricordi, situazioni buffe o commoventi che prendono spunto dalla presenza/assenza di Miles ma sono in realtà un'occasione per la scrittrice di esplorare vari aspetti della vita quotidiana nell'Inghilterra di oggi. Una scrittura divertente e divertita, una girandola di giochi di parole e rimandi che vanno da Shakespeare al punk passando per i musical e le canzoni dell'Eurofestival.

Frau trifft Mann - Junge trifft Mädchen: Eine Geschichte, so alt wie die Menschheit. Doch was passiert, wenn antike Geschichten im brandneuen Gewand präsentiert werden? Funny and fresh, poetic and political - a kind of myth for the modern world.

Ali Smith's Supersonic 70s collects together some of Ali Smith's best writing of the last ten years and also includes a brand new story.

Cinco mujeres: cuatro están vivas, tres son forasteras, dos son hermanas, una está muerta. Y todas han pasado alguna vez por el hotel«Con su voz de ultratumba, Ali Smith ha creado el fantasma litera

Sophia Cleves a invité son fils Art à venir passer Noël dans sa demeure en Cornouailles. À cette occasion, il doit lui présenter sa petite amie, Charlotte, mais celle-ci a rompu avec Art quelques jou

Individually lucid and luminous, these formally inventive and exquisite tales resonate subtly together. In examining the distances and connections between ourselves and others, and lightly and expertly inching us closer to the bone, storytelling itself has never seemed so necessary, so moving or so joyous.

The Smart family's lacklustre holiday in Norwich is turned upside down when a beguiling stranger called Amber appears, bringing with her love, joy, pain and upheaval. The Smarts try to make sense of their bewildering emotions as Amber tramples over family boundaries and forces them to think about their world and themselves in an entirely new way. The Accidental is at once a mysterious web of secret identities and a ruthlessly honest look at the silent cracks that can develop unnoticed in relationships over time.

Why are books so very powerful?What do the books we've read over our lives - our own personal libraries - make of us?What does the unravelling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us?The stories in Ali Smith's new collection are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us; how they shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless all at once; how they remind us to pay attention to the world we make.Public libraries are places of joy, freedom, community and discovery - and right now they are under threat from funding cuts and widespread closures across the UK and further afield. With this brilliantly inventive collection, Ali Smith joins the campaign to save our public libraries and celebrate their true place in our culture and history.

Discover Ali Smiths dazzling, once-in-a-generation series, the Seasonal Quartet, a tour-de-force quartet of novels about love, time, art, politics, and how we live right nowAll four instalments of the quartet are available to buy and read in paperback and ebook now: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer A Book of the Year according to: the Daily Telegraph, the Observer, the Evening Standard, The Times.Dazzling Daily TelegraphWinter? 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 summers leaves? Dead litter. The world shrinks the sap sinks. But winter makes things visible. And if theres ice, therell be fire. In Ali Smiths 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, Smiths 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. Its the season that teaches us survival. b

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe unmissable new work from Ali Smith, following the dazzling Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal quartetOne day in post-Brexit, mid-pandemic Britain, artist Sandy Gray receives an unexpected phone call from university acquaintance Martina Pelf. Martina is calling Sandy to ask for help with a mysterious question shes been left with after shes spent half a day locked in a room by border control officials for no reason she can fathom: Curlew or curfew? You choose.And whats any of this got to do with the story of a young and talented blacksmith hounded from her trade and her home more than five hundred years ago?Ali Smiths novel takes wing, soaring between our atomised present and our medieval past in the hope we can open our locked down homes and selves to all the other times, other species, other histories, other possibilities.[An] entertaining and expert portrayal of the world we live in, seen by the most beguiling and likeable of novelistic intelligences Telegraph[Companion Piece] makes you look at the world afresh. For me, it turned a cold and depressing day into a bright one New StatesmanLONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2

O primeiro retrato romanesco dos dias inquietos da pandemia encerra de forma magistral o quarteto das estaçes de Ali Smith.Por essa altura, tornou-se moda adotar a postura de no querer saber. Tornou-se moda, tambem, insistir que aqueles que queriam saber, ou que diziam querer saber, ou eram uns pobres falhados ou estavam so a exibir-se. Parece que foi ha uma eternidade. Mas no foi foi literalmente ha escassos meses.Fevereiro de 2020: debruçada sobre o ecr do telemovel, Sacha, de 16 anos, assiste, tweet a tweet, post a post, a violencia racial, a ameaça de uma pandemia global, aos fogos florestais, ao radicalismo e as mentiras descaradas dos politicos. Tambem a familia de Sacha parece estar em perigo de desmoronar: desde o seu irmo, Robert, cujo promissor brilhantismo parece ofuscar-se sob um tedio perigoso, a me, Grace, incapaz de encontrar plena satisfaço na sua vida atual, preferindo a memoria distante dos seus tempos de atriz; e, na casa ao lado, ao pai, que, influenciado por Ashley, a nova mulher, se tornou ele proprio uma pessoa diferente.Em toda a parte, a vida parece existir num permanente estado de transiço, ora voltando atras e repetindo o passado, emulando-o com roupagens diferentes, ora trazendo o futuro de repente, prenhe tanto de perigo, como de esperança. Eis a derradeira estaço do Quarteto. Eis o Vero.Os elogios da critica:Ali Smith fecha o "quarteto das estaçes" com um romance ferozmente lucido, aberto as incertezas do presente sem esquecer as sombras do passado.Jose Mario Silva, Expresso [5 estrelas]Vero e o derradeiro volume de um quarteto onde Ali Smith desafiou as regras do romance para escrever to proximo quanto possivel dos acontecimentos. [...] Outono, Inverno, Primavera, Vero arrisca-se a ser uma das grandes marcas do nosso tempo na arte.Isabel Lucas, Publico [5 estrelas]Um poema em prosa quee uma homenagem a memoria, ao perdo, ao compreender o lado bom da vida e ao aproveitar o momento.The New York TimesVero e o trabalho ousado e valioso de uma escritora que se coloca dianteda escurido dos tempos de hoje e traz a si todo o calor e luz do nosso vero interior.The Washington Post

An acclaimed fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales by sixteen bestselling award winning writers

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 remix 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.

'Her best book yet, a dazzling hymn to hope, uniting the past and the present with a chorus of voices' Observer'Spring is an astonishing accomplishment and a book for all seasons' Independent'Autumn, Winter and Spring are state of the nation novels which understand that the nation is you, is me, is all of us' New Statesman'A story of our times... Savour it, because there is just one instalment left' Evening Standard'Smith tells stories in a voice you can't help but listen to' The TimesFrom 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 QuartetWhat 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?Spring. The great connective.