Winter

Beschreibung

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.<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 Winter, lifeforce matches up to the toughest of the seasons. In this second novel in her acclaimed Seasonal cycle, the follow-up to her sensational Autumn, 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>Discover all four instalments: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. <BR><BR>*****<BR><BR>'Dazzling . . .

Even in the bleak midwinter, Smith is evergreen' Daily Telegraph<BR><BR>'Graceful, mischievous, joyful . . . Infused with some much-needed humour, happiness and hope' Independent<BR><BR>'A novel of great ferocity, tenderness and generosity of spirit . . . Luminously beautiful' Observer

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