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.
El Cuarteto de las Estaciones Serie
Esta serie profundiza en las conexiones humanas y el paso del tiempo a través de cuatro narrativas inspiradas en las estaciones. Cada novela explora las vidas entrelazadas de personajes cuyos caminos se cruzan de maneras inesperadas, a menudo mediadas por el arte y la compañía mutua. Las obras se caracterizan por su prosa lírica y reflexiones reflexivas sobre temas sociales contemporáneos. Ofrece una experiencia de lectura inmersiva que deja una impresión duradera.
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