Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780241665572
Format: Paper over boards
Year: 2024
Publisher: Penguin UK


Description:
The first of two new interconnected novels from bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author Ali Smith



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.