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

A celebration of companionship in all its timeless and contemporary, legendary and unpindownable, spellbinding and shapeshifting forms...It follows the unique achievement of her Seasonal cycle of novels - Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer - written and published in as close as possible to real time, between 2016 and 2020, absorbing and refracting the times we are living through: the 'state-of-the-nation novels which understand that the nation is you, is me, is all of us' (New Statesman).'Ali Smith is lighting us a path out of the nightmarish now' Observer

*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.

Arriba la tardor. L’Elisabeth observa els canvis en el seu entorn després d’un estiu que ho ha capgirat tot al seu país. Els governs deceben, les opinions es polaritzen, el temps passa… No pot evitar

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

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

'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?

LImogen i lAnthea, dues germanes, treballen juntes a Pure, una agencia creativa. LAnthea senamora duna artista de la protesta que respon al nom dIfisol, les pintades gegantines de la qual distribuides per tota la ciutat i carregades dinsults a Pure shan convertit en el flagell de lempresa. Quan lAnthea i lIfisol es troben, latraccio es inevitable.Ali Smith, referent indiscutible de les lletres britaniques, ens presenta un relat divertit i fresc, poetic i politic, damor i de transformacio... I tambe sobre labsurditat del consumisme. Una historia de revelacions tan agudament enginyosa com lirica que actualitza el mite classic de la metamorfosi dIfis.

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.

La primavera. En Richard plora la pèrdua de la seva amiga, la Paddy. Ella entenia el món molt millor que ell i ara no sap com s’ho farà sense ella. La Florence i la Brittany s’han trobat en les condi

The unmissable finale to Ali Smith''''s dazzling literary tour de force: the Seasonal quartet concludes in 2020 with SummerIn 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.

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

O brave new world that has such people in t Once upon a time not very far from now two children come home to find a line of wet red paint encircling the outside of their house What does it mean Ita s a truism of our time that ita ll be the next generation whoa ll sort out our increasingly toxic world What would that actually be like In a state turned hostile a world of insiders and outsiders what things of the past can sustain them and what shape can resistance take And whata s a horse got to do with any of this Gliff is a novel about how we make meaning and how we are made meaningless With a nod to the traditions of dystopian fiction a glance at the Kafkaesque and a new take on the notion of classic it s a moving and electrifying read a vital and prescient tale of the versatility and variety deep rooted in language in nature and in human nature As always Alia s inventiveness and intelligence lit fireworks in my mind Gliff is an irresistible invitation to rethink and reword our way to a truly brave new world Michelle de Kretser

'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.

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.

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.

"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