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Spring
Luminous, generous, hope-filled... The third book in Ali Smith's seasonal quartet is her best yet, a dazzling hymn to hope, uniting the past and present with a chorus of voices... [Ali Smith] is lighting us a path out of the nightmarish now
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Stories
Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, AIDS and its Metaphors and Regarding the Pain of Others. She is also the author of four novels, a collection of stories and several plays. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work, and in 2003 she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004.
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Summer
An astonishing finale to a prescient series . . . Ali Smith brilliantly weaves strands of joy and celebration to end her Seasonal Quartet
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Winter
Cleverly constructed and elegantly written. It's both an engaging human story and a place for wider topical observations. Bring on Spring
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Corey Fah Does Social Mobility
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 2024LONGLISTED FOR THE NOTA BENE PRIZE 2024A radical, joyful novel from Goldsmiths Prize-winning author Isabel WaidnerIn flight from a traumatic rural childhood, Corey Fah has come to earth in a one-bed council flat in the capital. Trapped, with partner Drew, in the limited world which late capitalism has allotted them, they are modestly happy but practically futureless.Until, one day, Corey is offered a life-changing prize from out of the blue. Things are looking up - but as Corey soon finds, it's one thing winning a prize in life's lottery, and quite another being able to collect it - especially if you are a queer, working class immigrant with all of History working against you.Corey Fah's pursuit of the elusive prize - and an escape from precarity - is a whirlwind, epic journey through the streets of the city and the time-loops of the past, written with boundless energy and invention.Social mobility, in this radiant, radical novel, is never a simple step up the ladder, but a hopeful leap into the void.Praise for Corey Fah Does Social Mobility:'A head-spinning, mind-bending roller coaster of fun, horror, and subversion' Kamila Shamsie'A radical, rebellious novel . . . [Waidner] brings a fresh lens to our troubled world' Observer[The] writer everyone is talking about . . . and deservedly so' Bernardine Evaristo'Filled with wickedly sharp commentary and well-aimed digs at hypocrisy and injustice' Times Literary Supplement
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Swing Time
Smith's finest. Extraordinary, truly marvellous Observer Superb Financial Times Breathtaking TLS Pitch-perfect, Daily Telegraph ;A tale of two girls who meet in a West London dance class... A page-turner that beautifully written Glamour. There is still no better chronicler of the modern British family than Zadie Smith TelegraphSHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017 A dazzlingly exuberant new novel moving from north west London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On BeautyTwo brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, black bodies and black music, what it means to belong, what it means to be free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten either.Bursting with energy, rhythm and movement, Swing Time is Zadie Smith's most ambitious novel yet. It is a story about music and identity, race and class, those who follow the dance and those who lead it . .
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Autumn
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of many novels, including most recently Autumn, Winter and Spring in the 'Seasonal' quartet. Her 2014 novel How to be both won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel of the Year Award. She has also been shortlisted once for the Orwell Prize, twice for the Orange Prize and four times for the Man Booker Prize, among many other prizes. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.
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Swing Time
Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time, as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia, and a collection of essays, Changing My Mind, and editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. White Teeth won multiple awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. On Beauty was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and NW was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Estate
Estate è il quarto volume della serie di Ali Smith dedicata alle stagioni: romanzi che raccontano in tempo reale le crisi del presente (dalla Brexit alla pandemia) ma attraverso una chiave universale: quella dell'incontro salvifico e generativo con l'altro. In questo caso, la famiglia Greenlaw (Grace, separata dal marito; Sacha, sedicenne coscienziosa e impegnata; Robert, tredicenne geniale ma imbevuto di retorica dell'intolleranza) decide di mettersi in viaggio insieme a una coppia appena conosciuta. Il risultato è il gioioso movimento finale di una straordinaria sinfonia sul nostro tempo. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
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Toxic
The simmering Norwegian sensation, from the bestselling author of A Modern FamilyShamed schoolteacher, Mathilde, moves to a dairy farm in the Norwegian countryside for an ‘easier life’, but she’s soon up to her old tricks … upending and unsettling the lives of two reclusive farmers. Exquisitely written, razor-sharp and simmering with an unexpected tension, Toxic marks the return of one of Norway’s finest writers…
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Winter
Fremde und Familie - ein Weihnachtsfest in einem Cottage. »Ein literarisches Feuerwerk.« Frankfurter Rundschau Winter - die kürzesten Tage, die längsten Nächte. Eine Jahreszeit, die uns das Überleben lehrt. Vier Leute, Fremde und Familie, verbringen Weihnachten in einem riesigen Haus in Cornwall, und doch stellt sich die Frage, ob jeder genug Platz findet. Denn Arthurs Mutter Sophia sieht Dinge, die nicht sein können. Arthur selbst sieht andere. Und da sind noch Iris, Sophias Schwester, ewige Rebellin, nach dreißig Jahren wieder zurück, und Lux, eine Fremde, die Arthur als seine Freundin ausgibt. Eine besondere Nacht, voll Streit und Lügen, Erinnerungen und Mythen.
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Frühling
Der Nr.-1-Bestseller aus Großbritannien. »Ali Smith ist eine der größten lebenden Schriftstellerinnen, die Virginia Woolf unserer Zeit.« The Observer Ein Meisterwerk über unsere Zeit und eine Hymne an die Hoffnung: Was verbindet einen unbekannten Regisseur, der um verlorene Zeiten trauert, und die Angestellte eines Flüchtlingszentrums, die ganz im Hier und Jetzt lebt? Was haben Katherine Mansfield und Rainer Maria Rilke mit Twitter und Fake News zu tun? Und warum schafft es ein zwölfjähriges Mädchen, verkrustete Strukturen zu sprengen und allen die Augen zu öffnen? Ali Smith - eine der ganz großen Stimmen der Gegenwart - erzählt die unmögliche Geschichte einer unmöglichen Zeit und stößt in einer Welt, die zunehmend von Mauern und Schließungen geprägt ist, eine Tür auf.
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