Ali Smith

En esta colección de cuentos, Ali Smith muestra una original inventiva y un enorme talento para el lenguaje. En el relato que da título, un joven viaja por el campo británico comprando ediciones de El gran Gatsby para su hermana; y ella tiene la intencion de usar los libros para construir un barco. A veces comicas, a veces perturbadoras, estas doce historias nos desconciertan y, a la vez, nos atraen. "Su escritura nos sorprende con su intimidad e imaginacion, su agudeza y precision. Su trabajo ha sido definido como una carta de amor al mundo, y realmente lo parece". Joyce Carol Oates

Gliff es la nueva novela de Ali Smith, una novela distópica que alberga un rayo de esperanza.Bri y su hermana Rose viven temporalmente solos porque una emergencia familiar reclama a su madre lejos de casa. Y no son buenos tiempos. La hostilidad de las autoridades destruye los hogares marcados con una linea roja, como el suyo, convirtiendo a sus habitantes en inverificables, personas fuera del sistema que no se someten al modelo autoritario dominante.Gliff es un caballo que encuentran en un campo. Rose, a quien le encantan las palabras, le pone este nombre, que tiene muchos significados. Un guiño a que el cambio es posible.Ali Smith, cuyas novelas son un manual para entender el mundo actual, nos advierte en esta obra distopica de lo que nos puede suceder y pone su esperanza, y la nuestra, en Bri, Rose y en la gente de su generacion.La milagrosa Gliff, de Ali Smith, es a la vez una vision lugubre del futuro autoritario y un retrato tierno, hilarante y, en ultima instancia, inspirador de dos hermanos jovenes que luchan por escapar de el. [] Un rayo de esperanza despues de un año como este. Paul Murray, The Irish Times, Libros del año

NOVELA GANADORA DEL PREMIO ENCORE Y DEL PREMIO DEL LIBRO DEL SCOTTISH ARTS COUNCIL, Y FINALISTA DEL BOOKER Y DEL ORANGE PRIZE «Esta extraordinaria novela te atrae como un imán. Smith es una arquitect

SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2017A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smiths Seasonal quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now. Undoubtedly Smith at her best. Puckish, yet elegant angry, but comforting The Times Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdom is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever . . .Discover all four instalments: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. Ali Smiths new novel, Companion piece, is available now.*****ONE OF THE GUARDIANS BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY Undoubtedly Smith at her best. Puckish, yet elegant angry, but comforting The TimesBold and brilliant ObserverTerrific, extraordinary, playful . . . There is an awful lot to lift the soul Daily Mail

En Biblioteca pública Ali Smith vuelve a demostrar que el lenguaje es algo vivo y brillante y que la literatura nos ayuda a vivir. ¿Por qué los libros son tan poderosos? ¿Qué significa conocer a un escritor a traves de sus libros? La voz unica de Ali Smith nos trae una coleccion de historias inteligentes, unidas por la literatura y el amor por el lenguaje, y que constituye una defensa muy elocuente de las bibliotecas publicas, esos lugares de alegria, libertad, comunidad y descubrimiento. Como en el resto de sus obras, Ali Smith nos muestra en este volumen su amor por los libros y la pasion por sus autores favoritos, sosteniendo que uno puede conocer a un escritor mejor que a un amigo y que leer es pedir prestado sin culpa. Ali Smith es un tesoro nacional [?]. Es experta en combinar pequeños destellos de arrobamiento con anecdotas divagantes, apartes y disquisiciones eruditas, para crear una impresion de densidad y profundidad. The Guardian

"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 corazon, a la cabeza y a nuestros entusiasmados huesos Siempre dotada de un humor inteligente, pero tambien conmovedora y divertida, Smith explora los modos y maneras del relato En uno, una mujer de mediana edad mantiene una emocionante conversacion con su propio yo a los catorce años de edad...

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.

Dues històries d’amor i d’injustícia separades per 500 anys i lligades amb un fil invisible. Un artista italià del Renaixement i una adolescent filla d’una activista política connectaran gràcies a la

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.

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.

"L'accidental"és la vertiginosa i entretinguda història, perversament divertida, d’una misteriosa desconeguda --Amber-- que apareix de sobte durant les vacances d’estiu d’una família, els Smart, i tr

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. In another, an innocent supermarket shopper finds in her trolley a foul-mouthed, insulting and beautiful child. Challenging the boundaries between fiction and reality, a third presents its narrator, ''Ali'', as she drinks tea, phones a friend and muses on the relationship between the short story and a nymph. Innovative, sophisticated and intelligent, the stories in The First Person and Other Stories are packed full of ideas, jokes, nuance and compassion. Ali Smith and the short story are made for each other.

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.

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There once was a man who, one night at a dinner party, went upstairs and locked himself in one of the bedrooms of the house of the people who were giving the dinner party.... As time passes by and the consequences of this strangers actions ripple outwards, touching the owners, the guests, the neighbours and the whole country.

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

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.

My mother began me one evening in 1968 on a table in the caf of the towns only cinema . . .One hot summer a stranger arrives at the Norfolk holiday home of the Smart family. Intriguing, beguiling, arresting, Amber brings love, joy, pain and not a little upheaval, throwing the carefully ordered world of the Smarts into the air. They will be forever changed by Amber but how will they know whether it is for the bad, the good or something else entirely?Joyous ... writing as rapture, as giddy delight The TimesFunny, sexy, poignant, bewitching Observer