Kirjailija
Ali Smith
Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 111 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 1998–2027, suosituimpiin kuuluu Gliff. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.
111 kirjaa
Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 1998–2027.
Det er februar 2020, og verden er i trøbbel. I Australia herjer voldsomme branner, i Kina har et mystisk virus blitt oppdaget, og i Brighton i England har seksten år gamle Sacha sine egne problemer. Den kverulerende og kyniske lillebroren, Robert, er et problem i seg selv. Foreldrene deres har også problemer, faren har for eksempel flyttet vegg i vegg sammen med sin unge kjæreste. Og alt dette foregår mens det virkelige sammenbruddet enda ikke har begynt. Sommer er en roman om store og dyptgripende forandringer. Ali Smith skriver skarpsynt og håpefullt om en mørk tid, og om mennesker som er i familie, men som likevel ikke kjenner hverandre. For hva er egentlig familie? Og hva er det de likevel har til felles, uten at de ser det selv? Sommer er fjerde bind i Ali Smiths årstidskvartett. Fire romaner om vår tid, fra en av Storbritannias mest betydningsfulle forfattere. «[hun] fortjener en nobelpris» ANNE CATHRINE STRAUME, NRK BOK «den vakreste, smarteste og mest politiske romanserien i vår samtid, om vår samtid» TONJE VOLD, MORGENBLADET «Er Ali Smith den beste nålevende britiske, muligens også europeiske, forfatteren? Hun er i hvert fall en av de klokeste. Artigste. Mest empatiske, og samtidig språksprelske» GERD ELIN STAVA SANDVE, DAGSAVISEN «Aldri har jeg lest noe så energisk om vår kaotiske tid. Aldri har jeg blitt så håpefull av noe så håpløst» HILDE SLÅTTO, VÅRT LAND
V nastojaschem Sasha znaet, chto vse idet naperekosjak. Ee brat Robert - khodjachaja beda. Mezhdu materju i ottsom ne laditsja. A mir v razdrae - i ved stanet tolko khuzhe. A v proshlom leto bylo prekrasno. Drugie brat i sestra esche ne znali, chto zhdet ikh vperedi. Eto istorija o ljudjakh na poroge bolshikh peremen. Oni rodnja, no slovno chuzhie drug drugu. Tak s chego nachinaetsja semja? I chto obschego u ljudej, kotorym kazhetsja, chto ikh nichego ne obedinjaet? Leto.
Desember, noen dager før jul. Det er en av de varmeste vintrene som er registrert, igjen, og i et godsliknende hus i Cornwall i det sørvestlige England samles fire mennesker til julefeiring: husets eier, den en gang vellykkede forretningskvinnen Sophia Cleves; hennes sønn, naturbloggeren Arthur; en ung kvinne som Arthur kaller Charlotte, og Iris, Sophias opprørske bohemsøster. Huset har femten soverom, men er det plass til alle? "Vinter" er Ali Smiths skarpe og kloke protest mot en stadig mer avgrenset og lukket verden. Hvem som får bli og hvem som må ut, er høyst usikkert, og Smith skriver bitende om gjerder og murer, aksjoner og maktmisbruk, men også engasjert og empatisk om en slags familie som må finne sammen fordi det tross alt er jul. "Vinter" er andre bind i en planlagt kvartett om vår tid, fra en av Storbritannias mest betydelige forfattere.
"Blomstrande, elektronisk, hyperventilerande prosa ger hopp om livet, kärleken och konsten" Sveriges Radio, KulturnyttDen sista delen i Ali Smiths imponerande litterära kraftprov, Årstidskvartetten, handlar om sommaren. I samtiden finner vi Sacha som vet att världen har stora problem. Hennes bror Robert bara är stora problem. Och deras mamma och pappa brottas med stora problem. Samtidigt håller världen på att rasa samman. I dåtiden finner vi en underbar sommar. En helt annan bror och syster vet att de lever på lånad tid. Det här är en berättelse om människor i förändring. De är familj, men de tror att de är främlingar. Så, var börjar familjen? Och vad har människor som inte tror de har något gemensamt, gemensamt? Sommaren? "Sommar är ett lapptäcke i den rikaste årstidens alla färger, en roman som rymmer oerhört mycket. Konstnärligt, politiskt, språkligt, men framför allt mänskligt" Expressen"Ali Smith har genomfört något verkligt anmärkningsvärt med sin säsongskvartett, ett verk som har vuxit med de tidsutmaningar som var själva grundpremissen, men också en serie romaner som kommer att överleva och berätta för kommande generationer hur det var att leva i dessa pressade, oroliga och galna tider, och hur vi genom överlevde dem tack vare konsten" The Guardian
Discover the unforgettable finale to Ali Smith's dazzling literary tour-de-forceIn 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.
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.
Refugee Tales
Ali Smith; Abdulrazak Gurnah; Chris Cleave; Marina Lewycka; Jade Amoli-Jackson; Patience Agbabi; Inua Ellams; Stephen Collis; Michael Zand; Dragan Todorovic
Comma Press
2016
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Halvin toimitettuna 19,40 €
Two unaccompanied children travel across the Mediterranean in an overcrowded boat that has been designed to only make it halfway across... A 63-year-old man is woken one morning by border officers 'acting on a tip-off' and, despite having paid taxes for 28 years, is suddenly cast into the detention system with no obvious means of escape... An orphan whose entire life has been spent in slavery - first on a Ghanaian farm, then as a victim of trafficking - writes to the Home Office for help, only to be rewarded with a jail sentence and indefinite detention... These are not fictions. Nor are they testimonies from some distant, brutal past, but the frighteningly common experiences of Europe's new underclass - its refugees. While those with "citizenship" enjoy basic human rights (like the right not to be detained without charge for more than 14 days), people seeking asylum can be suspended for years in Kafka-esque uncertainty. Here, poets and novelists retell the stories of individuals who have direct experience of Britain's policy of indefinite immigration detention. Presenting their accounts anonymously, as modern day counterparts to the pilgrims' stories in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, this book offers rare, intimate glimpses into otherwise untold suffering.
Talking her way into the Norfolk cottage that the Smart family is renting for the summer, Amber, an enigmatic, lying con artist, insinuates herself into the lives of Eve, her husband Michael, and their children, forcing them to reexamine the events of their lives through her perceptions and forever altering the world around them. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.
WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE SALTIRE AWARD 'Joyous' The Times The Accidental pans in on the Norfolk holiday home of the Smart family one hot summer. There a beguiling stranger called Amber appears at the door bearing all sorts of unexpected gifts, trampling over family boundaries and sending each of the Smarts scurrying from the dark into the light. A novel about the ways that seemingly chance encounters irrevocably transform our understanding of ourselves, The Accidental explores the nature of truth, the role of fate and the power of storytelling.*****'Brilliant and engaging, frequently hilarious. . . Smith makes one look at the world afresh' Sunday Telegraph 'Funny, sexy, poignant, bewitching' Observer'A beguiling page-turner . . . To read The Accidental is to be excited from first to last' Independent
A wildly inventive collection of fiction from the MAN BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED and BAILEYS PRIZE-WINNING author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet'She's a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense' Alain de Botton'I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul' Evening Standard
From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author comes a collection of uniquely inventive stories that thread the labyrinth of coincidence, chance, and connections missed and made. What happens when you run into Death in a busy train station? (You know he's Death because when he smiles, your cell phone goes dead.) What if your lover falls in love with a tree? Should you be jealous? From the woman pursued by a band of bagpipers in full regalia to the artist who's built a seven-foot boat out of secondhand copies of The Great Gatsby, Smith's characters are offbeat, charming, sexy, and as wonderfully complex as life itself.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION A masterful, exuberant novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet 'Ali Smith has got style, ideas and punch. Read her' Jeanette Winterson Five people: four are living, three are strangers, two are sisters, one is dead. In her highly acclaimed and ambitious book, the brilliant Scottish writer Ali Smith brings alive five unforgettable characters and traces their intersecting lives. This is a short novel with big themes (time, chance, money, death) but an eye for tiny detail: the taste of dust, the weight of a few coins in the hand, the pleasurable pain of a stone in one's shoe . . .*****'As infectious as a pop song, the story bursts open from the very first page and demands to be read in one sitting' The Times 'Hotel World is essential reading from a major talent' Independent
BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST - Forget room service: this is a riotous elegy, a deadpan celebration of colliding worlds, and a spirited defense of love. Blending incisive wit with surprising compassion, Hotel World is a wonderfully invigorating, life-affirming book. Five people: four are living; three are strangers; two are sisters; one, a teenage hotel chambermaid, has fallen to her death in a dumbwaiter. But her spirit lingers in the world, straining to recall things she never knew. And one night all five women find themselves in the smooth plush environs of the Global Hotel, where the intersection of their very different fates make for this playful, defiant, and richly inventive novel.
From one of Britain's most impressive young fiction writers comes an extraordinary and haunting novel - A seductive story of what it means to be alive at the edge of the 20th century: here is a story of what it's like.