Ali Smith

Ghosts don't exist.They don't. End of.Story, however.It is haunting.Everything tells it.It all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find themselves making up a ghost.Is it imaginary? Is it real?Then it all starts again thirty years later when Petra, now estranged from Patch, finds a phantom horse kicking the furniture to pieces in her bedroom.What to do? She phones her sister.In a chiaroscuro dance through our increasingly antagonistic era, Glyph asks if were attending to the history thats made us and to the history were making. A funny, warm and clear-eyed take on where we are now, Glyph is about what our imaginations are for and how, in a broken, brutal and divided time, we rekindle care, solidarity, resistance and openness.This anti-war novel, Ali Smiths most soulful, playful and vital yet, is a work of lightness that goes deep to counter the forces currently flattening the modern world.A standalone novel, its family to Gliff (2024).

En Biblioteca pública Ali Smith vuelve a demostrar que el lenguaje es algo vivo y brillante y que la literatura nos ayuda a vivir. ¿Por qué los libros son tan poderosos? ¿Qué significa conocer a un escritor a traves de sus libros? La voz unica de Ali Smith nos trae una coleccion de historias inteligentes, unidas por la literatura y el amor por el lenguaje, y que constituye una defensa muy elocuente de las bibliotecas publicas, esos lugares de alegria, libertad, comunidad y descubrimiento. Como en el resto de sus obras, Ali Smith nos muestra en este volumen su amor por los libros y la pasion por sus autores favoritos, sosteniendo que uno puede conocer a un escritor mejor que a un amigo y que leer es pedir prestado sin culpa. Ali Smith es un tesoro nacional [?]. Es experta en combinar pequeños destellos de arrobamiento con anecdotas divagantes, apartes y disquisiciones eruditas, para crear una impresion de densidad y profundidad. The Guardian

El compromiso de Ali Smith con el mundo actual se refleja tanto en los temas de su obra como en los retos narrativos que afronta para ofrecer grandes momentos de lectura a quienes se atrevan a entrar en su juego literario. Sin duda apasionada por su oficio y por el mundo de los libros, en sus textos dialoga con diversos autores y obras. En cada parte que conforma su Cuarteto, Ali Smith nos muestra una concepción amplia de la cultura, con referencias a artistas de diferentes disciplinas, creando así su particular e innovador universo literario. Y es que todo le interesa a Ali Smith. Es una escritora que se enfrenta a las dificultades e injusticias de las sociedades de nuestro tiempo, sin rehuir nunca el riesgo ni caer presa de la autocensura que en ocasiones impone la percepción pública; y lo hace de manera brillante, con humor, siempre con humor.

NOVELA GANADORA DEL PREMIO ENCORE Y DEL PREMIO DEL LIBRO DEL SCOTTISH ARTS COUNCIL, Y FINALISTA DEL BOOKER Y DEL ORANGE PRIZE «Esta extraordinaria novela te atrae como un imán. Smith es una arquitec

A celebration of companionship in all its timeless and contemporary, legendary and unpindownable, spellbinding and shapeshifting forms...It follows the unique achievement of her Seasonal cycle of novels - Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer - written and published in as close as possible to real time, between 2016 and 2020, absorbing and refracting the times we are living through: the 'state-of-the-nation novels which understand that the nation is you, is me, is all of us' (New Statesman).'Ali Smith is lighting us a path out of the nightmarish now' Observer

"The First Person and Other Stories" effortlessly appeals to our hearts, heads and funny bones Always intellectually playful, but also very moving and funny, Smith explores the ways and whys of storytelling In one, a middle-aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her gauche fourteen-year-old self... "The First Person and Other Stories" nos llega sin esfuerzo al corazon, a la cabeza y a nuestros entusiasmados huesos Siempre dotada de un humor inteligente, pero tambien conmovedora y divertida, Smith explora los modos y maneras del relato En uno, una mujer de mediana edad mantiene una emocionante conversacion con su propio yo a los catorce años de edad...

Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy and the colour-hit of Pop Art - via a bit of very contemporary skulduggery and skull-diggery - Autumn is a witty excavation of the present by the past. The novel is a stripped-branches take on popular culture, and a meditation, in a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, what harvest means.Autumn is the first installment in Ali Smith''s novel quartet Seasonal: four standalone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as the seasons are), exploring what time is, how we experience it, and the recurring markers in the shapes our lives take and in our ways with narrative.From the imagination of the peerless Ali Smith comes a shape-shifting series, wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories, and a story about ageing and time and love and stories themselves.

Dues històries d’amor i d’injustícia separades per 500 anys i lligades amb un fil invisible. Un artista italià del Renaixement i una adolescent filla d’una activista política connectaran gràcies a la

Grandi classici, raccontati da grandi nomi della letteratura cosi come potrebbero raccontarli ai figli o nipoti, una sera, nel loro salotto."Save the story": frutto della collaborazione tra Scuola Holden e Gruppo Editoriale L''Espresso, e anche un ciclo di reading affidati a grandi scrittori presentato all''Auditorium Parco della Musica e coprodotto con la Fondazione Musica per Roma. Non un''operazione di riscrittura, ma un appassionato omaggio ai libri che piu abbiamo amato.Eta di lettura: da 8 anni.

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 unravelling 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 do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us; how they shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless all at once; how they remind us to pay attention to the world we make.Public libraries are places of joy, freedom, community and discovery - and right now they are under threat from funding cuts and widespread closures across the UK and further afield. With this brilliantly inventive collection, Ali Smith joins the campaign to save our public libraries and celebrate their true place in our culture and history.

"L'accidental"és la vertiginosa i entretinguda història, perversament divertida, d’una misteriosa desconeguda --Amber-- que apareix de sobte durant les vacances d’estiu d’una família, els Smart, i tr

The First Person and Other Stories effortlessly appeals to our hearts, heads and funny bones. Always intellectually playful, but also very moving and funny, Smith explores the ways and whys of storytelling. In one, a middle-aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her gauche fourteen-year-old self. In another, an innocent supermarket shopper finds in her trolley a foul-mouthed, insulting and beautiful child. Challenging the boundaries between fiction and reality, a third presents its narrator, ''Ali'', as she drinks tea, phones a friend and muses on the relationship between the short story and a nymph. Innovative, sophisticated and intelligent, the stories in The First Person and Other Stories are packed full of ideas, jokes, nuance and compassion. Ali Smith and the short story are made for each other.

There once was a man who, one night at a dinner party, went upstairs and locked himself in one of the bedrooms of the house of the people who were giving the dinner party.... As time passes by and the consequences of this strangers actions ripple outwards, touching the owners, the guests, the neighbours and the whole country.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe unmissable new work from Ali Smith, following the dazzling Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal quartetOne day in post-Brexit, mid-pandemic Britain, artist Sandy Gray receives an unexpected phone call from university acquaintance Martina Pelf. Martina is calling Sandy to ask for help with a mysterious question shes been left with after shes spent half a day locked in a room by border control officials for no reason she can fathom: Curlew or curfew? You choose.And whats any of this got to do with the story of a young and talented blacksmith hounded from her trade and her home more than five hundred years ago?Ali Smiths novel takes wing, soaring between our atomised present and our medieval past in the hope we can open our locked down homes and selves to all the other times, other species, other histories, other possibilities.[An] entertaining and expert portrayal of the world we live in, seen by the most beguiling and likeable of novelistic intelligences Telegraph[Companion Piece] makes you look at the world afresh. For me, it turned a cold and depressing day into a bright one New StatesmanLONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2

Imagine you give a dinner party and a friend of a friend brings a stranger to your house as his guest. He seems pleasant enough. Imagine that this stranger goes upstairs halfway through the dinner party and locks himself in one of your bedrooms and won't come out. Imagine you can't move him for days, weeks, months. If ever. This is what Miles does, in a chichi house in the historic borough of Greenwich, in the year 2009-10, in There but for the. Who is Miles, then? And what does it mean, exactly, to live with other people? Sharply satirical and sharply compassionate, with an eye to the meanings of the smallest of words and the slightest of resonances, There but for the fuses disparate perspectives in a crucially communal expression of identity and explores our very human attempts to navigate between despair and hope, enormity and intimacy, cliche and grace. Ali Smith's dazzling new novel is a funny, moving book about time, memory, thought, presence, quietness in a noisy time, and the importance of hearing ourselves think.

Durante una cena in un'elegante casa di Greenwich un amico di un amico dei padroni di casa si alza da tavola e non torna più. Si scopre che si è chiuso nella stanza degli ospiti e non ha la minima intenzione di uscire. Perché ha preso questa decisione? Cosa spera di ottenere? E soprattutto chi è Miles Garth? Gen, la padrona di casa, si mette alla ricerca di amici e parenti del suo ospite indesiderato che possano convincerlo a desistere dal suo proposito inspiegabile. Comincia così una carrellata di personaggi, ricordi, situazioni buffe o commoventi che prendono spunto dalla presenza/assenza di Miles ma sono in realtà un'occasione per la scrittrice di esplorare vari aspetti della vita quotidiana nell'Inghilterra di oggi. Una scrittura divertente e divertita, una girandola di giochi di parole e rimandi che vanno da Shakespeare al punk passando per i musical e le canzoni dell'Eurofestival.

"Libro d''esordio dell''autrice di ""Like"", ""Voci fuori campo"" e ""Hotel world"". Dodici racconti che declinano l''amore in una miriade di sfumature sentimentali e sensuali. Si trovano allora una teenager che perde la verginita durante un viaggio ad Amsterdam tra le braccia di una prostituta; la giovane donna che per amore della letteratura lascia al vento le pagine della sua biblioteca; i ricordi di un''ardente passione evocati da un timido fotografo; la descrizione di un''attrazione struggente, non corrisposta, che si consuma mentre scorrono sullo schermo fotogrammi dei film piu celebri della storia del cinema. "