Gliff

‘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.

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O brave new world, that has such people in’t.

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.

What does it mean?

It’s a truism of our time that it’ll be the next generation who’ll sort out our increasingly toxic world.

What would that actually be like?

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?

And what’s a horse got to do with any of this?

Gliff 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.

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Weight 0.4 kg
Dimensions 22.2 × 13.8 × 2.5 cm
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