Summer

Winner of the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2021

von Ali Smith

400 Seiten, Hardcover

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WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021A 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. 'A maestra's portrait of her age . . . remarkable' GuardianIn 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. Discover all four instalments: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. *****'The first great coronavirus novel - a book to savour, a literary tour de force' Evening Standard'Exquisite. Smith is in a class of her own' Nicola Sturgeon'An astonishing finale to a prescient series . . . Ali Smith brilliantly weaves strands of joy and celebration to end her Seasonal Quartet' Irish Times

• Themen: Belletristik Allgemein, nicht nach Genre Allgemein und literarisch
• ISBN: 9780241207062
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 06.08.2020
• Größe: 223 x 149 mm
• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd