Spring

LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE 2019

What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in modern times?

Spring. The great connective.

With an eye to the migrancy of story over time, and riffing on Pericles, one of Shakespeare'...

LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE 2019

What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in modern times?

Spring. The great connective.

With an eye to the migrancy of story over time, and riffing on Pericles, one of Shakespeare's most resistant and rollicking works, Ali Smith tells the impossible tale of an impossible time. In a time of walls and lockdown Smith opens the door.

The time we're living in is changing nature. Will it change the nature of story?

Hope springs eternal.

【作者简介】

阿莉·史密斯|Ali Smith

1962年生于苏格兰因弗内斯，现居住在剑桥。

她曾四次入围布克奖，两次入围百利女性小说奖，并在2015年凭借《双面人生》获得该奖，同时，《双面人生》还斩获了首届金匠奖和科斯塔文学奖。

2017年，《秋》入围布克奖短名单，登上当年《纽约时报》“十大好书”榜首，并在《卫报》于2019年评选出的“二十一世纪百佳图书”榜单中位列第八名。

她的笔触极具辨识度，外柔内刚，细腻中带着潮湿感，如同弥漫在伦敦上空的淡淡水雾，却又饱含着对民族和政治的深刻反思，仿佛一颗埋在柔软泥土中的胡桃，坚硬而温存。

【译者简介】

许小凡，北京外国语大学英语学院教师，译有林德尔·戈登著《T.S.艾略特传：不完美的一生》等，曾获第八届鲁迅文学奖文学·翻译奖。从事现当代英语文学翻译与研究。