Ali Smith

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 d

La Sand, una pintora, és a casa quan truca una dona amb qui havia coincidit a la universitat. Li explica una experiència transcendental que ha viscut i acut a ella per la facilitat que tenia d'aprofundir en els significats de les coses, sobretot d'allò ocult, com en els poemes… Però la Sand no pot ocupar-se d'això, abans sí que creia en el valor de les paraules, tanmateix, amb el seu pare ingressat, ara només pot pensar en no contagiar-se per poder anar-lo a visitar. En una altra època, una nena, la millor en el seu ofici, hereta la ferreria de la família que l'acull quan moren per tuberculosi. Ali Smith connecta dues històries per formular preguntes sobre el nostre present, conèixer el passat, i mirar el futur.

«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 h

En la distopia de Gliff, la societat s’ha tornat tan desigual que ningú no veu els qui queden fora del sistema. El govern, amb la seva burocràcia implacable, destrueix sistemàticament les llars marca

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.

"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. "

"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. "

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

How to be both is the dazzling new novel by Ali Smith. Winner of the GoldSmiths Prize 2014 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014 Winner of the 2014 Costa Novel Award Winner of the Saltire Society Literary Book of the Year Award 2014 Nominated for the Folio Prize 2015. Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else. 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 the 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. "Smith can make anything happen, which is why she is one of our most exciting writers today." (Daily Telegraph). "She's a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense." (Alain de Botton). "I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul." (Evening Standard). Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. She is the author of Artful, There but for the, Free Love, Like, Hotel World, Other Stories and Other Stories, The Whole Story and Other Stories, The Accidental, Girl Meets Boy and The First Person and Other Stories.

"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...

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.

"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

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,