O brave new world, that has such people in’t<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Once upon a time not very far from now, two children come home to find a line of wet red paint encircling the outside of their house.<\/p>\n
What does it mean?<\/p>\n
It’s a truism of our time that it’ll be the next generation who’ll sort out our increasingly toxic world.<\/p>\n
What would that actually be like?<\/p>\n
In a state turned hostile, a world of insiders and outsiders, what things of the past can sustain them and what shape can resistance take?<\/p>\n
And what’s a horse got to do with any of this?<\/p>\n
Gliff<\/i> is a novel about how we make meaning and how we are made meaningless. With a nod to the traditions of dystopian fiction, a glance at the Kafkaesque, and a new take on the notion of classic, it’s a moving and electrifying read, a vital and prescient tale of the versatility and variety deep-rooted in language, in nature and in human nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
‘Gliff’ – a Scots or Northern word for a glimpse, a shock, a glance – will not only tell its own story but also contain within it a hidden story, to be revealed only in a second novel, ‘Glyph’ – from the Greek, meaning a mark, carving or symbol – to be published a year later. In form and feeling, ‘Gliff’ will light a new, fabular and fabulist path for Ali Smith and for us through the gathering darkness of our chaotic times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[216],"product_tag":[26830,27011,27013,26955],"class_list":{"0":"post-105683","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","5":"product_cat-fiction-hardback","6":"product_tag-modern-contemporary-fiction","7":"product_tag-narrative-theme-politics","8":"product_tag-science-fiction-near-future","9":"product_tag-speculative-fiction","10":"pa_book_author-smith-ali","11":"pa_cover-hardback","12":"pa_dewey-823-92-edition23","13":"pa_edition-hardback-original","14":"pa_imprint-hamish-hamilton","15":"pa_language-english","16":"pa_pages-8757","17":"pa_publisher-hamish-hamilton","18":"pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","20":"first","21":"onbackorder","22":"taxable","23":"shipping-taxable","24":"purchasable","25":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n