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Summer: Winner of the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2021

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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. Praise For Seasonal: 'the Novel Of The Year Is Obviously Autumn' Observer On Autumn 'masterful... Winter Is Utterly Original' New York Times Book Review On Winter 'luminous, Generous, Hope-filled... A Dazzling Hymn To Hope. Ali Smith Is Lighting Us A Path Out Of The Nightmarish Now' Observer On Spring 'smith's Seasonal Quartet Of Novels Is A Bold And Brilliant Experiment' Independent

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ISBN9780241973363
PublisherPenguin Books, Limited
Publication Date12/31/20
Pages208

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  • katinkaminka
    katinkaminka

    96 Followers

    4.0

    I'm sad the seasonal quartett is over

    What a perfect ending. Picking up most of the stories and people from the other three books. I would just love to keep on reading about those characters that have grown on me dearly. Again a lot of politics and arts... this time mainly the pandemic and how it changed who we see as family and want to stay close to in times get rough... Next time I would like to read the books in german. They are a lovely read in English, don't get me wrong. But I think I could get even deeper into the story and be more able to read between the lines in german. And I would read them one after the other and not wait for the right season to come... this was an amazing experience but it would be nicer not to have to look up who was who in one of the other seasons...

    Jul 30, 2025

  • gedankenlabor
    gedankenlabor

    290 Followers

    5.0

    >>Zeit ist Glas und Sand, ist spröde und flüssig, Zeit ist zerbrechlich und fest, ist scharf und stumpf, Zeit ist heute und früher, ist davor und danach, Zeit ist glatt und rau, und wenn man sich aus seiner Gebundenheit an der Zeit lösen will, lacht die Zeit laut und zieht einem das Fell ab.<>Überall auf der Welt geschieht so viel Schockierendes - wenn deine Definition stimmt, dann wäre die ganze Welt jetzt gerade das größte Kunstprojekt aller Zeiten,...<<

    Sep 19, 2022

  • saiya
    saiya

    15 Followers

    5.0

    Großartig! Irgendwann werde ich alle 4 Romane direkt hintereinander noch einmal lesen. Was für ein stimmiges Finale.

    Aug 25, 2022

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