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Results for 'ali smith'
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Glyph
Glyph’s primary power comes from its commitment to excavating the sediments of language; its etymological resonance and inference . . . Smith’s tonal skill as a writer is also used to great effect when dealing with . . . bureaucratic, authoritarian absurdity . . . It is a bold move to be so morally unflinching, especially in the face of a perceived aesthetic orthodoxy that so often privileges distance and irony, but in Glyph we see a major British writer answering the call of the day when so many others have equivocated or turned away. There is also something about Smith’s relentless focus on language that makes her particularly well suited to the task . . . Smith’s sensibility is fine-tuned to grapple with the avalanche of passive-voice headlines, asymmetric categorisations, outright linguistic inversions and semantic absurdities that have accompanied the increasingly desperate attempts to justify the unjustifiable
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Gliff
Here is a voice that moves with lightness and precision, where bravery and goodness triumph in spirit over jeopardy and fear . . . Smith is good at fable-ising, and at taking a young perspective in order to question afresh systems and inherited knowledge . . . Smith’s fiction teaches with vitality that there is no such thing as a futile question
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Wildcat Dome
A brilliantly layered commentary on postwar Japan... despite the grave subject matter, the novel’s tone, preserved faithfully in Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda’s expert translation, is gentle and warm, suggesting the author’s abundant optimism for human adaptability
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Glyph
Glyph’s primary power comes from its commitment to excavating the sediments of language; its etymological resonance and inference . . . Smith’s tonal skill as a writer is also used to great effect when dealing with . . . bureaucratic, authoritarian absurdity . . . It is a bold move to be so morally unflinching, especially in the face of a perceived aesthetic orthodoxy that so often privileges distance and irony, but in Glyph we see a major British writer answering the call of the day when so many others have equivocated or turned away. There is also something about Smith’s relentless focus on language that makes her particularly well suited to the task . . . Smith’s sensibility is fine-tuned to grapple with the avalanche of passive-voice headlines, asymmetric categorisations, outright linguistic inversions and semantic absurdities that have accompanied the increasingly desperate attempts to justify the unjustifiable
€ 27,50 -
The Delusions
There is wondrously clever, imaginative and slyly satirical world building here. Metaphysical splendours too: as night falls, "galaxies unfurl" and all newcomers stop, awestruck, to gaze at Earth below… What is undeniable is that Fagan, a Granta best young British novelist in 2013, is a fierce talent.
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The Blood of Others
Potent and vividly emotional, Simone de Beauvoir's captivating novel questions freedom and individual responsibility in the face of brutality'These carefree faces, on which we allowed our smiles to spread, were for others the mask of tragedy.'Jean Blomart, patriot leader against the German forces of occupation, waits throughout an endless night for his wounded lover, Hélène, to die. Told through memories of his and her life, The Blood of Others paints an intense and moving picture of their love story and life in German occupied Paris during the Second World War. In the face of a seemingly unstoppable force, Hélène and Jean are confronted by the illusion of freedom and made to question their individual roles in the collective struggle against fascism, with devastating consequences. First published in 1945, this powerful novel resonates profoundly today and brings the ideas of one of the most important existentialist thinkers to life in spellbinding prose. With an Introduction by Ali Smith.
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Parade
WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE** Pre-order Life of M, the new novel from Rachel Cusk, now **'A brilliant, stark and unsettling feat.' OBSERVER'Thoughtful and true ...
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Parade
WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZEA path-breaking novel of art, womanhood and violence, from the author of the Outline trilogy.
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Gliff
A Novel€ 18,50 -
Picture of Nobody
Transposed into the early twentieth century, a nonentity named Shakespeare rails against poverty, mediocrity, and misunderstanding, in forgotten modernist Philip Owens's brilliant, one-of-a-kind satire.
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Glyph
A Novel€ 30,95 -
Gliff
Der neue Roman der preisgekrönten britischen Kultautorin: Zwei junge Menschen in einem feindlich gesinnten Staat, in dem die Vergangenheit entgleitet und jeder Widerstand unmöglich scheint.'Was Gliff bedeutet: Ein kurzer Augenblick. Eine leise Ähnlichkeit. Eine unverhoffte oder zufällige Aussicht. Ein flüchtiger Blick. Ein unvermittelter Schauder. Ein Wink. Etwas Schlaf. Ein Anflug von Krankheit, leichtes Angeschlagensein. Ein Hauch. Ein Schrecken. Ein Schock. Ein Beben. Ein Wimpernschlag.' Es war einmal, in nicht allzu weiter Zukunft: Zwei Geschwister, Bri und Rose, müssen sich von ihrer Mutter trennen, weil diese in einer weit entfernten Stadt Arbeit findet. Als die beiden nach Hause kommen, entdecken sie eine Linie aus noch nasser roter Farbe, die ihr Grundstück umgibt. Was hat das zu bedeuten, in diesem Land, das seine Einwohner mithilfe von Technologie streng kontrolliert und völlig entmenschlicht? Bri und Rose jedenfalls vermuten nichts Gutes und verstecken sich in einem leer stehenden Haus am anderen Ende der Stadt. Dort treffen sie bald auf eine Gruppe von Widerständlern, auf ein Pferd namens Gliff, und auf eine neue Form des Überlebens. 'Gliff' erzählt mit Verweisen auf Klassiker der dystopischen Literatur eine elektrisierende, und so märchenhafte wie erschreckende Geschichte über zwei junge Menschen auf der Suche nach Halt in dieser schönen neuen Welt. Ali Smith zeigt uns, 'wo Tapferkeit und Güte über Gefahr und Angst triumphieren.' (Financial Times)
€ 25,00