Winter

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Beschreibung

<p><b>A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now.</b><br><br>Winter? Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. The shortest days, the longest nights. The trees are bare and shivering. The summer's leaves? Dead litter.<br><br>The world shrinks; the sap sinks.<br>But winter makes things visible. And if there's ice, there'll be fire.<br><br>In Ali Smith's <i>Winter</i>, lifeforce matches up to the toughest of the seasons. In this second novel in her acclaimed Seasonal cycle, the follow-up to her sensational <i>Autumn</i>, Smith casts a merry eye over a bleak post-truth era with a story rooted in history, memory and warmth, its taproot deep in the evergreens: art, love, laughter.<br><br>It's the season that teaches us survival.<br><br>Here comes Winter.<br><br><b>Discover all four instalments: <i>Autumn, Winter, Spring </i>and<i> Summer.</i> </b><br><br>*****<br><br>'Dazzling . . . Even in the bleak midwinter, Smith is evergreen' <b><i>Daily Telegraph</i></b><br><br>'Graceful, mischievous, joyful . . . Infused with some much-needed humour, happiness and hope'<b> <i>Independent</i></b><br><br>'A novel of great ferocity, tenderness and generosity of spirit . . . Luminously beautiful' <b><i>Observer</i></b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780241973332

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

197 x 131 x 25 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin Books Ltd (UK)