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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.

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.

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,

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

'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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

'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?

Hotel World was the winner of the Encore Award 2002 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize for fiction in 2001. Five people: four are living, three are strangers, two are sisters, one is dead. Hotel World takes us through a night in the life of five people's very different worlds. It's luxurious for some, but a long drop for others. Cash or credit? Ali Smith's innovative and extraordinary new novel checks us in to the smooth plush world of the Global. But is it really the kind of place you want to spend the rest of your life in? Playful, defiant, richly inventive, Hotel World is a riotous elegy, a deadpan celebration, an alchemy of opposite worlds colliding to make a modern parable of connection and indifference, and, in the end, a defence of love. Forget room service. This is a life-affirming book about death, a death-affirming book about life. Check-out is at noon.

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.

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

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.