Summer
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LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021
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.
'A maestra's portrait of her age . . . remarkable' Guardian
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.
Discover all four instalments: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. Ali Smith's new novel, Companion piece, is available now.
*****
'The first great coronavirus novel - a book to savour, a literary tour de force' Evening Standard
'Exquisite. Smith is in a class of her own' Nicola Sturgeon
'An astonishing finale to a prescient series . . . Ali Smith brilliantly weaves strands of joy and celebration to end her Seasonal Quartet' Irish Times
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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...
>>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,...<<
ali smith is a genius and i will not accept other opinions about this. summer especially was a book about bringing people together in a time that is trying to split us apart. in the same way as autumn, winter, spring and summer only make sense as a tetralogy, a connected story rather than separate entities, summer’s story unites everything.
Description
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021
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.
'A maestra's portrait of her age . . . remarkable' Guardian
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.
Discover all four instalments: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. Ali Smith's new novel, Companion piece, is available now.
*****
'The first great coronavirus novel - a book to savour, a literary tour de force' Evening Standard
'Exquisite. Smith is in a class of her own' Nicola Sturgeon
'An astonishing finale to a prescient series . . . Ali Smith brilliantly weaves strands of joy and celebration to end her Seasonal Quartet' Irish Times
Book Information
Posts
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...
>>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,...<<
ali smith is a genius and i will not accept other opinions about this. summer especially was a book about bringing people together in a time that is trying to split us apart. in the same way as autumn, winter, spring and summer only make sense as a tetralogy, a connected story rather than separate entities, summer’s story unites everything.