Ali Smith Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

Ambientata in un futuro prossimo in cui i confini sociali sono in costante cambiamento, questa narrativa che sfida i generi segue due bambini e un cavallo mentre navigano in un mondo incerto. Attraverso il termine scozzese "Gliff", che significa momenti e percezioni effimere, la storia esplora la ricerca di significato da parte dell'umanità in un paesaggio sempre più dominato dagli algoritmi. L'autore enfatizza l'importanza delle complessità individuali e il profondo bisogno di lasciare un'impronta duratura, sfidando la riduzione dell'esperienza umana a semplici dati.

A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - published to commemorate the centenary of his death Chosen as a 2024 highlight in the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Daily Mail, New Statesman, Esquire and the New European Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the great geniuses of twentieth-century literature. What happens when some of the most original literary minds of today take an idea, a mood or a line from his work and use it to spark something new?From a future society who ask their AI servants to construct a giant tower to reach God; to a flat hunt that descends into a comically absurd bureaucratic nightmare; to a population experiencing a wave of unbearable, contagious panic attacks, these ten specially commissioned stories are by turns mind-bending, funny, unsettling and haunting. Inspired by the visionary imagination of a writer working one hundred years ago, they speak powerfully to the strangeness of being alive today.

Die alte Krähe hat schon viel gesehen in ihrem langen Leben, und sie weiß: Das Königreich Theben ist verflucht, seit Krähen gedenken. In der Nacht hat ein schrecklicher Kampf getobt, weil zwei Brüder sich nicht einig waren, wem von ihnen die Königskrone zusteht. Menschen! Nun sind beide tot. Doch nur Eteokles darf beerdigt werden, das hat Kreon, der neue König, verfügt. Der andere Bruder, Polyneikes, sei ein Verräter und werde den Tieren zum Fraß vorgeworfen. Was die alte Krähe begrüßt - aber die zwölfjährige Antigone durchkreuzt die Pläne des Königs: Die Schwester von Polyneikes und Eteokles widersetzt sich Kreons Befehl, sie wird Polyneikes beerdigen. Und die alte Krähe fragt sich, wohin das alles noch führen soll …

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

In 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.

Spring will come. The leaves on its trees will open after blossom. Before it arrives, a hundred years of empire-making. The dawn breaks cold and still but, deep in the earth, things are growing.

Mari e Jonna, due artiste che vivono in opposti atelier di un grande edificio sul porto di Helsinki e in una casetta su un'isola solitaria, esplorano la loro creatività in modi diversi. Mari scrive, illustra e accoglie un maestro burattinaio russo, mentre si interroga sul senso della vita, ispirata da una donna solitaria. Jonna, invece, dipinge, intaglia il legno e cerca di catturare la realtà con la cinepresa, appassionandosi ai film western di serie B e ai capolavori di Fassbinder. Le loro personalità si scontrano e si confrontano attraverso dialoghi sagaci e silenzi eloquenti, unite da un’urgenza creativa che illumina la quotidianità e rivela piccole epiche. Definito da Ali Smith come «una vera opera d’arte», il racconto è un gioco sottile tra due donne indipendenti che, con ironia e rispetto reciproco, mantengono uno scambio autentico e tenero. Con una prosa raffinata, Tove Jansson traduce in un gioiello letterario il legame con la donna con cui ha condiviso quarant’anni di vita e lavoro, creando un equilibrio leggero e rivoluzionario che celebra la libertà di una storia d’amore.

When four people, strangers and family, converge on a fifteen-bedroom house in Cornwall for Christmas, will there be enough room for everyone?

Set in Caerphilly, a diminished castle town in South Wales, Thomas Morris' debut collection reveals its treasures in unexpected ways, offering vivid and moving glimpses of the lost, lonely and bemused. By turns poignant, witty, tender and bizarre, these entertaining stories detail the lives of people who know where they are, but don't know what they're doing

"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 coax us endlessly to unexpected blossom; how they remind us to pay attention to the world we make."--Jacket.

MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • The first novel in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet is an unforgettable story about aging and time and love—and stories themselves. Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Two old friends—Daniel, a centenarian, and Elisabeth, born in 1984—look to both the future and the past as the United Kingdom stands divided by a historic, once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand-in-hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever. A luminous meditation on the meaning of richness and harvest and worth, Autumn is the first installment of Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet, and it casts an eye over our own time: Who are we? What are we made of? Shakespearean jeu d’esprit, Keatsian melancholy, the sheer bright energy of 1960s pop art. Autumn is wide-ranging in time-scale and light-footed through histories.

L’una e l’altra è un romanzo a specchio, composto da due lunghe novelle che si collegano e si richiamano a vicenda. Una è la storia di una ragazza che, nella Ferrara del Quattrocento, si finge maschio per portare avanti la carriera di pittore (Ali Smith la immagina come segreto alter ego di Francesco del Cossa, autore degli splendidi affreschi che adornano le pareti del Salone dei Mesi di Palazzo Schifanoia); l’altra è la storia di Georgia – detta George – una sedicenne di oggi che si trova a fare i conti con l’improvvisa morte della madre, attivista politica forse tenuta sotto sorveglianza, pochi mesi dopo una visita a quegli stessi affreschi. Fra suggestioni da romanzo storico e atmosfere quasi mystery, L’una e l’altra è una modernissima riflessione sull’identità di genere, sul rapporto fra arte e potere, sulle mille possibili declinazioni dell’atto del guardare (dalla contemplazione di un’opera d’arte all’entertainment allo spionaggio): un romanzo originalissimo, sfaccettato e affascinante che in Gran Bretagna ha segnato la definitiva consacrazione della sua autrice, facendo incetta di premi letterari e vendendo decine di migliaia di copie.

A new novel of the pre-Olympic moment from the Booker-shortlisted author of ‘Darkmans’, Nicola Barker. 'There was a rat in the bath', Gene explains. 'It's a long story, but basically I fished it out and was carrying around by the tail, not quite sure how to dispose of it, when I managed to barge in on this woman having a genital tattoo'. 2006 is a foreign country; they do things differently there. Tiger Woods' reputation is entirely untarnished and the English Defence League does not exist yet. Storm-clouds of a different kind are gathering above the bar of Luton's less than exclusive Thistle Hotel. Among those caught up in the unfolding drama are a man who's had cancer seven times, a woman priest with an unruly fringe, the troubled family of a notorious local fascist, an interfering barmaid with three E's at A-level but a PhD in bullshit, and a free-thinking Muslim sex therapist and his considerably more pious wife. But at the heart of every intrigue and the bottom of every mystery is the repugnantly charismatic figure of Stuart Ransom – a golfer in free-fall. Nicola Barker's ‘The Yips’ is at once a historical novel of the pre-Twitter moment, the filthiest state-of-the-nation novel since Martin Amis' ‘Money’ and the most flamboyant piece of comic fiction ever to be set in Luton.

Adapted from the lectures given by Ali Smith at Oxford University, 'Artful' is a tidal wave of ideas in four thematically organised bursts of thought.

Imagine hosting a dinner party where a friend of a friend brings a stranger who unexpectedly locks himself in one of your bedrooms, refusing to leave. This scenario unfolds in a chic house in Greenwich during 2009 and 2010. The narrative centers on Miles, prompting reflections on identity and the complexities of living with others. With sharp satire and compassion, the story weaves together diverse perspectives to explore the communal nature of existence, highlighting our struggles between despair and hope, and the balance of enormity and intimacy. The novel delves into themes of time, memory, and the importance of self-reflection in a chaotic world. Critics praise it as a remarkable work—funny yet serious, whimsical yet profound. The writing is described as dazzling, agile, and full of wit, showcasing Smith's exceptional ability to bring characters to life. The book is not only a joy to read but also a testament to Smith's talent for crafting narratives that are both playful and deeply affecting, making her one of today's most exciting authors.

A collection of love stories for various moods and occasions.

Always intellectually playful, but also very moving and funny, the author explores the ways and whys of storytelling.

Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But in Whitbread winner Ali Smith's lyrical, funny, mash-up of Ovid's most joyful gender-bending metamorphosis story, girl meets boy in so many more ways than one.

Following the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Summer Book, here is a Winter Book collection of some of Tove Jansson’s best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of the great Finnish writer’s prose, scattered with insights and home truths. It has been selected and is introduced by Ali Smith, and there are afterwords by Philip Pullman, Esther Freud and Frank Cottrell Boyce.The Winter Book features thirteen stories from Tove Jansson’s first book for adults, The Sculptor’s Daughter (1968) along with seven of her most cherished later stories (from 1971 to 1996), translated into English and published here for the first time.

Ali Smith's Supersonic 70s collects together some of Ali Smith's best writing of the last ten years and also includes a brand new story.

As editors Toby Litt and Ali Smith explain in their introduction: "newness is quite a venerable category. There's not much that's new about it. In the 1930s, when a magazine called "New Writing" was first published, it had to compete with "New Signatures," "New Country," "New Verse," the "New Statesman" "and Nation" and "New Theatre," and what with the "New Woman" of the 1890s and new everything else, even then, new wasn't the new new. . . If we've achieved diversity, it's because our submissions were themselves diverse; and the final selection is representative of the proportion of short stories to novel extracts, poems and essays that were submitted. Originality is only proven over time, paradoxically. We are confident that some of the names here you've never heard before will become very familiar. They may even disgrace themselves by winning prizes, becoming established, etc. But they'll be the kinds of writer, like the known names published here, for whom everything they write is a renewal - of language, of place, of the senses and of the contemporary."

WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE SALTIRE AWARD 'Joyous' The Times The Accidental pans in on the Norfolk holiday home of the Smart family one hot summer. There a beguiling stranger called Amber appears at the door bearing all sorts of unexpected gifts, trampling over family boundaries and sending each of the Smarts scurrying from the dark into the light. A novel about the ways that seemingly chance encounters irrevocably transform our understanding of ourselves, The Accidental explores the nature of truth, the role of fate and the power of storytelling. ***** 'Brilliant and engaging, frequently hilarious. . . Smith makes one look at the world afresh' Sunday Telegraph 'Funny, sexy, poignant, bewitching' Observer 'A beguiling page-turner . . . To read The Accidental is to be excited from first to last' Independent

This collection of stories explores the complexities of understanding the whole story and finding meaning amidst chance and coincidence. It delves into various themes, including nature, literature, art, and love, highlighting connections and missed connections.

A whirling library of ghost story, funny story, love story, scary story, and more. Like Russian dolls, separate yet invisibly linked, they unfold from and into one another.

This Very Short Introduction provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1936. It examines the impact of the revolution on society as a whole-on different classes, ethnic groups, the army, men and women, youth. Its central concern is to understand how one structure of domination was replaced by another.

Intorno al lussuoso Global Hotel si incrociano i destini di cinque donne: Sara, una giovane cameriera morta accidentalmente all’interno dell’albergo; Lise, una receptionist dall’inattesa generosità; Else, una mendicante che per poche ore viene ammessa in quel mondo di comfort e privilegio; Penny, una giornalista più smaniosa di ricevere attenzione che in grado di darne; e Clare, la sorella di Sara, che cerca di fare i conti con la sua scomparsa. Cinque personaggi femminili ciascuno con la propria voce, cinque appassionanti flussi di coscienza da cui ricostruiamo man mano una vicenda fatta di mondi diversi che si toccano. Una godibilissima ghost story contemporanea che si legge di un fiato, sbalorditi dall’audacia della scrittura e commossi dalla sua profonda umanità.

The timeless and unique collection of short stories is Ali Smith's first. 'I love her prose' - Kate Atkinson

There's Amy and there's Ash. There's ice and there's fire. There's England and there's Scotland. Ali Smith evokes the twin spirits of time and place in an extraordinarily powerful first novel, which teases out the connections between people, the attractions, the ghostly repercussions. By turns funny, haunting and disconcertingly moving, LIKE soars across hidden borders between cultures, countries, families, friends and lovers. Subtle and complex, it confounds expectations about fiction and truths. 'Ingenious, shimmering fiction, written with a poetic grace that subtly illuminates the tensions between hope and desire, between past and present' Scotland on Sunday