Autumn

Readers love Ali Smith’s novels for their peerless innovation and their joyful celebration of language and life. Her newest, Autumn, has all of these qualities in spades, and—good news for fans!—is the first installment in a quartet. Seasonal, comprised of four stand-alone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as are the seasons), explores what time is, how we experi...

Readers love Ali Smith’s novels for their peerless innovation and their joyful celebration of language and life. Her newest, Autumn, has all of these qualities in spades, and—good news for fans!—is the first installment in a quartet. Seasonal, comprised of four stand-alone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as are the seasons), explores what time is, how we experience it, and the recurring markers in the shapes our lives take and in our ways with narrative. Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy, and the color hit of Pop Art, Autumn is a witty excavation of the present by the past. The novel is a stripped-branches take on popular culture and a meditation, in a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, what harvest means.

英国文坛新秀阿莉•史密斯，1962年生于苏格兰的因弗内斯，现居住在剑桥。堪称英国当代文坛最重要及最具潜质作家之一，伍尔芙继承者，被认为是值得期待的未来诺奖得主。其作品具有浓厚的实验性质和纯文学气质，多次获得英国金匠文学奖、《卫报》年度小说奖、科斯塔文学奖等文学奖项，并多次入围布克奖短名单。

她的小说具有浓厚的实验性质却又引人入胜，以充满巧合与意外的情节、多变的视角、开放的结构、丰富的声音和文字游戏、对传统性别建构的突破、细腻的情感以及厚重的主题而著称。