Ali Smith

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

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.

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 arquitec

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.

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.

"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. "

En el presente, Sacha sabe que el mundo está en problemas. Su hermano Robert simplemente es un problema. Su madre y su padre están teniendo problemas. Mientras tanto, el mundo está colapsando, y la verdadera debacle aun no ha comenzado. En el pasado, un hermoso verano. Un hermano y una hermana diferentes saben que estan viviendo en un tiempo prestado.Esta es una historia sobre personas al borde del cambio. Son familia, pero creen que son extraños. Entonces, ¿por donde empieza la familia? ¿Y que tienen en comun las personas que piensan que no tienen nada en comun?

"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. "

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.

Chica conoce chico fue publicado en 2007 y es uno de sus libros más apreciados por la crítica y los lectores. Una revisitación inolvidable de las Metamorfosis de Ovidio que nos habla sobre el poder transformador del amor.Y ahora os hablare de cuando yo era una chica, dice nuestro abuelo. Asi comienza esta novela en la que Ali Smith nos vuelve a sorprender, en esta ocasion revisitando las Metamorfosis de Ovidio.La historia se centra en dos hermanas, Imogen y Anthea, que viven en una casa que les dejaron sus abuelos. Imogen esta atada a la tierra, tratando de encajar en Pure, la compañia de agua embotellada en la que ambas trabajan, incluso cuando queda claro que la compañia esta dirigida por personas sin escrupulos.Ali Smith nos cuenta una historia sobre chicos, chicas, amor y transformacion; una historia de juegos de palabras, literatura y revelaciones. [] y nada perdura y nada se pierde y nada perece, y las cosas siempre pueden cambiar porque las cosas siempre cambiaran y siempre seran distintas, porque las cosas siempre pueden ser distintas.

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

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.

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.

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,

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.

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.

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.