How to be both
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WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2014
WINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARD
AN OBSERVER BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY SO FAR
'I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul' Evening Standard
How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a child of the 1960s.
Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real - and all life's givens get given a second chance.
*****
'Brims with palpable joy' Daily Telegraph
'She's a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense' Alain de Botton
'A delight. A masterpiece. Magical' Sunday Times
WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014
Ali Smith's new novel, Companion piece, is available now.
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„it means, he says, you who are more than one thing. You who exceed expectations.“
Ali Smiths Roman „How to be both“ is a piece of art. Was wissen wir von anderen? Was wissen wir über uns selbst? Es ist ein Roman über Gender, Sexualität, Identität, Kunst, Verlust, Trauer und Liebe. Dieser Roman stellt wirklich alles infrage. Das Besondere ist, dass mensch je nach Ausgabe eine andere Story zuerst liest. Beide Stories sind miteinander verbunden, mensch wird also je nach Ausgabe ein anderes Leseerlebnis haben. Die Bildbeschreibungen, die in dem Roman vorkommen sind wunderschön geschrieben und lassen eins mehr in den Bildern erkennen, als man davor erkannt hat. Eins der schönsten Bücher, die ich gelesen habe.
Description
WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2014
WINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARD
AN OBSERVER BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY SO FAR
'I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul' Evening Standard
How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a child of the 1960s.
Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real - and all life's givens get given a second chance.
*****
'Brims with palpable joy' Daily Telegraph
'She's a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense' Alain de Botton
'A delight. A masterpiece. Magical' Sunday Times
WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014
Ali Smith's new novel, Companion piece, is available now.
Book Information
Posts
„it means, he says, you who are more than one thing. You who exceed expectations.“
Ali Smiths Roman „How to be both“ is a piece of art. Was wissen wir von anderen? Was wissen wir über uns selbst? Es ist ein Roman über Gender, Sexualität, Identität, Kunst, Verlust, Trauer und Liebe. Dieser Roman stellt wirklich alles infrage. Das Besondere ist, dass mensch je nach Ausgabe eine andere Story zuerst liest. Beide Stories sind miteinander verbunden, mensch wird also je nach Ausgabe ein anderes Leseerlebnis haben. Die Bildbeschreibungen, die in dem Roman vorkommen sind wunderschön geschrieben und lassen eins mehr in den Bildern erkennen, als man davor erkannt hat. Eins der schönsten Bücher, die ich gelesen habe.