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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.

Ali Smith's Supersonic 70s collects together some of Ali Smith's best writing of the last ten years and also includes a brand new story.

Cinco mujeres: cuatro están vivas, tres son forasteras, dos son hermanas, una está muerta. Y todas han pasado alguna vez por el hotel«Con su voz de ultratumba, Ali Smith ha creado el fantasma litera

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

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?

«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

O primeiro retrato romanesco dos dias inquietos da pandemia encerra de forma magistral o quarteto das estaçes de Ali Smith.Por essa altura, tornou-se moda adotar a postura de no querer saber. Tornou-se moda, tambem, insistir que aqueles que queriam saber, ou que diziam querer saber, ou eram uns pobres falhados ou estavam so a exibir-se. Parece que foi ha uma eternidade. Mas no foi foi literalmente ha escassos meses.Fevereiro de 2020: debruçada sobre o ecr do telemovel, Sacha, de 16 anos, assiste, tweet a tweet, post a post, a violencia racial, a ameaça de uma pandemia global, aos fogos florestais, ao radicalismo e as mentiras descaradas dos politicos. Tambem a familia de Sacha parece estar em perigo de desmoronar: desde o seu irmo, Robert, cujo promissor brilhantismo parece ofuscar-se sob um tedio perigoso, a me, Grace, incapaz de encontrar plena satisfaço na sua vida atual, preferindo a memoria distante dos seus tempos de atriz; e, na casa ao lado, ao pai, que, influenciado por Ashley, a nova mulher, se tornou ele proprio uma pessoa diferente.Em toda a parte, a vida parece existir num permanente estado de transiço, ora voltando atras e repetindo o passado, emulando-o com roupagens diferentes, ora trazendo o futuro de repente, prenhe tanto de perigo, como de esperança. Eis a derradeira estaço do Quarteto. Eis o Vero.Os elogios da critica:Ali Smith fecha o "quarteto das estaçes" com um romance ferozmente lucido, aberto as incertezas do presente sem esquecer as sombras do passado.Jose Mario Silva, Expresso [5 estrelas]Vero e o derradeiro volume de um quarteto onde Ali Smith desafiou as regras do romance para escrever to proximo quanto possivel dos acontecimentos. [...] Outono, Inverno, Primavera, Vero arrisca-se a ser uma das grandes marcas do nosso tempo na arte.Isabel Lucas, Publico [5 estrelas]Um poema em prosa quee uma homenagem a memoria, ao perdo, ao compreender o lado bom da vida e ao aproveitar o momento.The New York TimesVero e o trabalho ousado e valioso de uma escritora que se coloca dianteda escurido dos tempos de hoje e traz a si todo o calor e luz do nosso vero interior.The Washington Post

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

'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.

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