Summer: Winner of the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2021

ISBN-13: 9780241973370 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 400 str.

Ali Smith

Opis

Discover the unforgettable finale to Ali Smith's dazzling literary tour-de-forceIn 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?Summer.

 

'Smith's seasonal quartet of novels is a bold and brilliant experiment' Independent'The novel's hopeful message about the healing power of friendship ensures the quartet ends on a feel-good note' Sunday Times

Recenzje

An astonishing finale to a prescient series . . . Ali Smith brilliantly weaves strands of joy and celebration to end her Seasonal Quartet Evening Standard

O autorze

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of several novels and short story collections including, The Accidental, Hotel World, How to Be Both and the Seasonal Quartet. She has been four times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, has won the Goldsmiths Prize, Orwell Prize, Costa Best Novel Award and the Women's Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.