num_pages: 322
description: The dazzling second novel in Ali Smiths essential Seasonal Quartetfrom the Baileys Prize-winning Man Booker-shortlisted author of Autumn and How to be Both.Winter? Bleak. Frosty wind earth as iron water as stone so the old song goes. The shortest days the longest nights. The trees are bare and shivering. The summers leaves? Dead litter.The world shrinks; the sap sinks.But winter makes things visible. And if theres ice therell be fire.In Ali Smith's Winter lifeforce matches up to the toughest of the seasons. In this second novel in her acclaimed Seasonal cycle the follow-up to her sensational Autumn Smith's shape-shifting quartet of novels casts a merry eye over a bleak post-truth era with a story rooted in history memory and warmth its taproot deep in the evergreens: art love laughter.Its the season that teaches us survival.Here comes Winter.
language: English
title: Winter
publisher: Hamish Hamilton