MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • The first novel in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet is an unforgettable story about aging and time and love—and stories themselves. Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Two old friends—Daniel, a centenarian, and Elisabeth, born in 1984—look to both the future and the past as the United Kingdom stands 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. A luminous meditation on the meaning of richness and harvest and worth, Autumn is the first installment of Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet, and it casts an eye over our own time: Who are we? What are we made of? Shakespearean jeu d’esprit, Keatsian melancholy, the sheer bright energy of 1960s pop art. Autumn is wide-ranging in time-scale and light-footed through histories.
Le Quatuor des Saisons Séries
Cette série explore les profondeurs de la connexion humaine et le passage du temps à travers quatre récits inspirés par les saisons. Chaque roman examine les vies entremêlées de personnages dont les chemins se croisent de manière inattendue, souvent médiatisés par l'art et la compagnie mutuelle. Les œuvres se caractérisent par leur prose lyrique et leurs réflexions sur les enjeux sociaux contemporains. Elles offrent une expérience de lecture immersive qui laisse une impression durable.
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- 336pages
- 12 heures de lecture
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Spring
- 352pages
- 13 heures de lecture
Spring will come. The leaves on its trees will open after blossom. Before it arrives, a hundred years of empire-making. The dawn breaks cold and still but, deep in the earth, things are growing.
Summer
- 400pages
- 14 heures de lecture
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.