Ali Smith: 38 books

De nieuwe roman van Ali Smith, Lente, is een zeldzaam meesterwerk, dat deel uitmaakt van de (los van elkaar te lezen) seizoenencyclus, een van de origineelste literaire series van onze tijd. Wat is de verbindende factor tussen Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit,...

Shortlist Man Booker Prize 2017 'De eerste serieuze Brexit-roman.' THE FINANCIAL TIMES De 101-jarige Daniel Gluck en de 32-jarige Elisabeth hebben een bijzondere vriendschap. Elisabeth leerde Daniel kennen toen ze acht was. Hij was haar buurman, en deze belezen, enthousiaste kunstverzamelaar nam haar...

Boek van het Jaar (The Daily Telegraph, The Observer, Evening Standard, The Times, The New York Times) Winter is het tweede boek uit Ali Smiths schitterende seizoencyclus, na de Man Booker Prize-favoriet Herfst. Wat de plot en de meeste personages betreft is het geen vervolg, maar de romans hebben...

“A stimulating combination of literary criticism, essay, and fiction” (The New Yorker) from the incomparable Ali Smith Artful is a celebration of literature’s worth in and to the world—it is about the things art can do, the things art is made of, and the quicksilver nature of all artfulness....

MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST A New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Financial Times, Southern Living, The Guardian, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year Long-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. That's what it felt like for Keats in 1819....

Über die Grammatik der Liebe und die Abgründe der Realität Der Alltag steckt voller verblüffender Geschichten – wenn Ali Smith sie erzählt. Hier reden, denken und lieben hellwache Frauen, sie lassen sich auf Nähe ein und nehmen die Sprache beim Wort. Die Grenzen zwischen Realität...

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? Spring. The great connective. With an eye to the migrancy of story...

Filled with Ali Smith's trademark wordplay and inventive storytelling, here is the dizzyingly entertaining, wickedly humorous story of a mysterious stranger whose sudden appearance during a family’s summer holiday transforms four variously unhappy people. Each of the Smarts*—parents Eve and Michael,...

From the Whitbread Award-winning author of The Accidental and Hotel World comes this stunning collection of stories set in a world of everyday dislocation, where people nevertheless find connection, mystery, and love.   These tales are of ordinary but poignant beauty: at the pub, strangers regale...

When a dinner-party guest named Miles locks himself in an upstairs room and refuses to come out, he sets off a media frenzy. He also sets in motion a mesmerizing puzzle of a novel, one that harnesses acrobatic verbal playfulness to a truly affecting story. Miles communicates only by cryptic...

Shortlisted for the British Book Award – Fiction Book of the Year and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing The second novel in the Man Booker Prize–nominated author’s Seasonal cycle; the much-anticipated follow-up to Autumn (a New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Financial Times,...

SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith’s novels are like nothing else. A true original, she is a one-of-a-kind literary sensation. Her novels consistently attract serious acclaim and discussion—and have won...

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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 unraveling 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...