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The first of two new, interconnected novels from bestselling, award-winning, Booker-Prize shortlisted author Ali Smith Following her dazzling five-novel portrait of our age, the ‘Seasonal’ sequence, Ali Smith returns with the first of two novels which belong together but can be read independently. Gliff – a Scots or Northern word for a glimpse, a shock, a glance – will not only tell its own story but also contain within it a hidden story, to be revealed only in a second novel, Glyph – from the Greek, meaning a mark, carving or symbol – to be published a year later. In form and feeling, Gliff will light a new, fabular and fabulist path for Ali Smith and for us through the gathering darkness of our chaotic times.

The first of two novels, Gliff, which is a Scottish/northern word for a shock, a fright, a transient moment, a glance or sudden glimpse, will be followed by a second novel in 2025, called Glyph (a signifying mark – as in ‘hieroglyph’). Glyph, the second novel, will tell a story which is hidden in the first so the two books will belong together but can be read independently. The two books will form a new step in Ali’s writing journey, different in form and feeling from the Seasonal Quartet (plus Companion piece) and will look very different too. Ali always keeps her novels under wraps until they are finished, and the surprise of reading a book only when it is complete, knowing almost nothing of its content, is part of the magic. O brave new world, that has such people in't. Once upon a time not very far from now, two children come home to find a line of wet red paint encircling the outside of their house. What does it mean?It’s a truism of our time that it’ll be the next generation who’ll sort out our increasingly toxic world. What would that actually be like?In a state turned hostile, a world of insiders and outsiders, what things of the past can sustain them and what shape can resistance take?And what’s a horse got to do with any of this?Gliff is a novel about how we make meaning and how we are made meaningless. With a nod to the traditions of dystopian fiction, a glance at the Kafkaesque, and a new take on the notion of classic, it's a moving and electrifying read, a vital and prescient tale of the versatility and variety deep-rooted in language, in nature and in human nature.

The unmissable new work from Ali Smith, following the dazzling Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal quartet 'A story is never an answer. A story is always a question.' Here we are in extraordinary times. Is this history? What happens when we cease to trust governments, the media, each other? What have we lost? What stays with us? What does it take to unlock our future? Following her astonishing quartet of Seasonal novels, Ali Smith again lights a way for us through the nightmarish now, in a vital celebration of companionship in all its forms. 'Every hello, like every voice, holds its story ready, waiting.'

Finalistka prestížnej Man Bookerovej ceny sa prvýkrát predstaví v slovenčine. Jeseň je prvý zo štyroch románov s názvami podľa ročných období. V knihe sa prelínajú príbehy umierajúceho 101- ročného starca Daniela Glucka a mladej ženy Elisabeth Demand. Postupne, cez viaceré spomienky zisťujeme, čo tieto dve postavy znamenali a čo znamenajú jeden pre druhého. Ich priateľstvo sa začalo náhodou, boli susedmi, no postupne sa zbližovali najmä cez umenie a to, že si jeden na druhého našli čas. Román je tiež označovaný ako prvý skutočne pobrexitový, keďže reflektuje súčasné dianie vo Veľkej Británii.

The unmissable finale to Ali Smith's dazzling literary tour de force: the Seasonal quartet concludes in 2020 with Summer 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.

Finalistka prestížnej Man Bookerovej ceny sa prvýkrát predstaví v slovenčine. Jeseň je prvý zo štyroch románov s názvami podľa ročných období. V knihe sa prelínajú príbehy umierajúceho 101- ročného starca Daniela Glucka a mladej ženy Elisabeth Demand. Postupne, cez viaceré spomienky zisťujeme, čo tieto dve postavy znamenali a čo znamenajú jeden pre druhého. Ich priateľstvo sa začalo náhodou, boli susedmi, no postupne sa zbližovali najmä cez umenie a to, že si jeden na druhého našli čas. Román je tiež označovaný ako prvý skutočne pobrexitový, keďže reflektuje súčasné dianie vo Veľkej Británii.

Finalistka prestížnej Man Bookerovej ceny sa prvýkrát predstaví v slovenčine. Jeseň je prvý zo štyroch románov s názvami podľa ročných období. V knihe sa prelínajú príbehy umierajúceho 101- ročného starca Daniela Glucka a mladej ženy Elisabeth Demand. Postupne, cez viaceré spomienky zisťujeme, čo tieto dve postavy znamenali a čo znamenajú jeden pre druhého. Ich priateľstvo sa začalo náhodou, boli susedmi, no postupne sa zbližovali najmä cez umenie a to, že si jeden na druhého našli čas. Román je tiež označovaný ako prvý skutočne pobrexitový, keďže reflektuje súčasné dianie vo Veľkej Británii.

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'Her best book yet, a dazzling hymn to hope, uniting the past and the present with a chorus of voices' Observer 'A story of our times... Savour it, because there is just one instalment left' Evening Standard 'Spring weaves a story around the most pressing issues of our time... Smith tells stories in a voice you can't help but listen to' The Times From the bestselling author of Autumn and Winter, as well as the Baileys Prize-winning How to be both, comes the next installment in the remarkable, once-in-a-generation masterpiece, the Seasonal Quartet What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in modern times? Spring. The great connective. With an eye to the migrancy of story over time, and riffing on Pericles, one of Shakespeare's most resistant and rollicking works, Ali Smith tells the impossible tale of an impossible time. In a time of walls and lockdown Smith opens the door. The time we're living in is changing nature. Will it change the nature of story? Hope springs eternal. Praise for the Seasonal Quartet: 'Transcendental writing about art, death, political lies, and all the dimensions of love. It's a case not so much of reading between the lines as of being blinded by the light between the lines - in a good way' Deborah Levy on Autumn 'The novel of the year is obviously Autumn, which managed the miracle of making at least a kind of sense out of post-Brexit Britain' Olivia Laing, Observer on Autumn 'Ali Smith is flat-out brilliant, and she's on fire these days... Combining brainy playfulness with depth, topicality with timelessness, and complexity with accessibility while delivering an impassioned defence of human decency and art' NPR on Winter 'Rank[s] among the most original, consoling and inspiring of the artistic responses to 'this mad and bitter mess' of the present' Financial Times on Winter 'A novel of great ferocity, tenderness and generosity of spirit that you feel Dickens would have recognised... Smith is engaged in an extended process of mythologizing the present states of Britain... Luminously beautiful' Observer on Winter

Ali Smithová (nar. 1962 ve Skotsku) vydala první knihu povídek v r. 1995, a byla okamžitě označena za výjimečný talent. Její druhý román Hotel svět byl nominován na Bookerovu cenu v r. 2001, a to ji proslavilo ve světě. Český výbor sedmnácti povídek s názvem Jiné povídky a jiné povídky pořízený z jejích tří povídkových souborů Láska je láska (1995), Jiné povídky (1999) a Celý příběh (2003) představuje autorku ve všech polohách, v nichž se čtenářům zatím představila, realistické, experimentální i metaforické. Ráda ukazuje situace, vztahy, okamžiky jinak, než bývá obvyklé, dokonce si ráda vybírá právě zajeté stereotypy a klišé a vychází z nich a pak je zpracovává zcela po svém. Například: domů přijdou překrásné květiny s prázdnou kartičkou - jako výchozí situace to není nic originálního, ale: co to způsobí v domácnosti dvou žen?