SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to be both Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. That's what it felt like for Keats in 1819. How about Autumn 2016? Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdom is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever. Ali Smith's new novel is a meditation on a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, on what harvest means. This first in a seasonal quartet casts an eye over our own time. Who are we? What are we made of? Shakespearian jeu d'esprit, Keatsian melancholy, the sheer bright energy of 1960s Pop art: the centuries cast their...
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Gåtfull och fascinerande exposé över vad tid är, hur vi upplever den och vad vi minns och det där med den skiftande tidsandan. Ibland rolig, ibland vemodig. Lite tjatig på slutet om 60-talskonstnären Pauline Boty. Allra mest gillar jag mammans metamorfos. Och det finns väl hopp om de politiska idéerna är cykliska (årstidsbundna)?