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Companion piece

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Companion piece

Companion piece

Editorial: Random UK

Pàgines: 226

Any: 2023

EAN: 9780241993958

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Sobre el libro Companion piece de Ali Smith publicado por Random UK al 2023:

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 she´s been left with after she´s spent half a day locked in a room by border control officials for no reason she can fathom:´Curlew or curfew? You choose.´And what´s 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 Smith´s 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...
Ali Smith

Sobre Ali Smith

Ali Smith (Inverness, 1964) Va tenir una mare irlandesa, un pare anglès i una educació escocesa (fins que va començar el seu doctorat al Newnham College, Cambridge). Als vint anys, després que un debilitant atac de síndrome de fatiga crònica descarrilés la seva carrera acadèmica, va començar a escriure. Ara, autora de vuit novel·les i sis col·leccions de contes, crea el que podria dir-se ficció experimental, però amb un estil fàcil, agradable i d´emocionant lectura. Escriu en The Guardian,...

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