New Releases by Ali Smith

Girl meets boy. It''s a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances?Ali Smith''s re-mix of Ovid''s most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can''t be bottled and sold.It is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, a story of puns and doubles, reversals and revelations.Funny and fresh, poetic and political, Girl Meets Boy is a myth of metamorphosis for the modern world.

From the acclaimed, award-winning author comes a sparkling, surprising collection of the writing she loves best—and without which she would not have become a writer. The Book Lover is a treasure trove of what Ali Smith has loved over the course of her reading life, in her twenties, as a teenager, as a child. Full of pieces from amazing writers like Sylvia Plath, Muriel Spark, Grace Paley, and Margaret Atwood, it also has a wonderful selection of lesser-known authors like Joseph Roth, only just gaining proper status now, and Clarice Lispector, a Brazilian genius who''s far too underpublished. From surprising figures like Beryl the Peril, Billie Holliday, and Lee Miller to unusual selections from the most prominent writers in history, The Book Lover is an intimate, personal anthology that gives readers a glimpse of how writers develop their craft—by reading other writers.

In these energetic, exhilarating stories, Ali Smith portrays a world of everyday dislocation, where people nevertheless find connection, mystery, and love. In “Astute Fiery Luxurious,” a fetid misdelivered package throws the life of a couple into disarray. A boy’s mysterious illness in “I Know Something You Don’t Know” drives his mother to seek guidance from homeopathic healers, with inconclusive results. In “The Child,”an unnervingly mature young boy voices offensive humor that genteel society would rather not acknowledge. And a woman meets her fourteen-year-old self but can’t figure out how to guide her--or even whether she should in “Writ.” As Smith explores the subtle links between what we know and what we feel, she creates an exuberant, masterly collection that is packed full of ideas, humor, nuance, and compassion. Ali Smith and the short story ae made for each other.

Em Garota encontra garoto, a premiada escritora escocesa Ali Smith atualiza com fina sensibilidade o antigo mito de Ifis. TRansportada para a Escócia e para a Inglaterra dos dias de hoje, a história da bela jovem cretense criada pela mãe como menino e transformada milagrosamente em homem às vésperas do casamento foi contada por Ovídio nas Metamorfoses. AS peripécias de Ifis remetem à liberdade do desejo e à universalidade do amor, idéias que fundamentam a trama deste romance da autora de Por acaso, também publicado pela Companhia das Letras e premiado em 2005 com o Whitbread Novel Award. Elementos de comédia shakespeareana anunciam com humor sutil o registro maravilhoso das peripécias de duas irmãs, Imogen e Anthea, cada vez mais separadas pela orientação sexual divergente e pelo conformismo da mais velha a certos preconceitos ultrapassados. ENquanto Imogen se dedica com afinco à carreira na Pura, enorme e sinistra corporação multinacional, Anthea se sente irresistivelmente atraída por Robin, codinome Ifisol, um artista de rua misterioso e andrógino. ESse desencontro, entretanto, é apenas aparente. AMbientado na pequena Inverness, cidade natal de Ali Smith, o livro retoma com ironia o tradicional tema do cinema e da música pop, boy meets girl, subvertendo-o numa fascinante história de amor entre iguais.

From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author comes a collection of uniquely inventive stories that thread the labyrinth of coincidence, chance, and connections missed and made. What happens when you run into Death in a busy train station? (You know he’s Death because when he smiles, your cell phone goes dead.) What if your lover falls in love with a tree? Should you be jealous? From the woman pursued by a band of bagpipers in full regalia to the artist who’s built a seven-foot boat out of secondhand copies of The Great Gatsby, Smith’s characters are offbeat, charming, sexy, and as wonderfully complex as life itself.

Devastated by the First World War, Chris Guthrie must confront life as a widowed single mother while managing her recently destroyed farm. Sunset Song is a powerful testament to Scotland''s agricultural past and life at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Libro d’esordio della talentuosissima autrice scozzese, Free Love è una raccolta che declina l’amore in una miriade di sfumature sentimentali e sensuali. Troviamo allora una teenager che perde la verginità durante un viaggio ad Amsterdam tra le braccia di una prostituta; la giovane donna che per amore della letteratura lascia al vento le pagine della sua biblioteca; i ricordi di un’ardente passione evocati da un timido fotografo; la descrizione di un’attrazione struggente, non corrisposta, che si consuma mentre scorrono sullo schermo fotogrammi dei film più celebri della storia del cinema... E così molti altri racconti che evocano il desiderio, la memoria, l’ambiguità sessuale e l’immaginazione di quel sentimento, tenero o impetuoso, per l’oggetto amato. Ali Smith ci mostra come le cose si attraggano e come si separino, come l’amore sia sempre amore, a prescindere dall’età, dal sesso o dall’ambiente nel quale vive il protagonista, perché tutti hanno il loro momento di follia.“Una raccolta dolcemente memorabile... Un talento eccezionale.” “The Times”

Filled with the bestselling, award-winning author''s trademark wordplay and inventive storytelling, here is the dizzyingly entertaining, wickedly humorous story of a mysterious stranger whose sudden appearance during a family’s summer holiday transforms four variously unhappy people. Each of the Smarts—parents Eve and Michael, son Magnus, and the youngest, daughter Astrid—encounter Amber in his or her own solipsistic way, but somehow her presence allows them to see their lives (and their life together) in a new light. Smith’s narrative freedom and exhilarating facility with language propel the novel to its startling, wonderfully enigmatic conclusion.

Girl meets boy. It''s a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances?Ali Smith''s re-mix of Ovid''s most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can''t be bottled and sold.It''s about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, a story of puns and doubles, reversals and revelations.Funny and fresh, poetic and political, Girl meets boy is a myth of metamorphosis for the modern world.''I love Ali Smith''s work.''Jeanette Winterson, The Times''An extremely readable, easy-flowing writer and one of the subtlest and most intelligent around.''Carol Birch, Independent

Traditional Chinese edition of The Accidental. The book was short listed by the Man Booker Prize and won the Whitbread Prize. A psychic / mentally unstable woman managed to manipulate each member of the Smart family vacationing in an English cottage in Norfolk. A mesmerizing read.

Ali Smith''s Supersonic 70s collects together some of Ali Smith''s best writing of the last ten years and also includes a brand new story.

A funny glimpse into the lives of five people connected to one branch of the ubiquitous Global Hotel chain. Brought together -- and forced apart -- by a bizarre incident involving a dumb waiter, we share their very different experiences of the life in the aftermath of death, of pain and sorrow, of hope and love -- everything, in fact, that the world dares to throw at us.

A collection of short stories that share the same theme of examining the distances and connections between people.