{"title":"Ali Smith","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"autumn-a-novel-seasonal-quartet-book-1","title":"Autumn: A Novel (Seasonal Quartet) Book 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e(NOTE: The Book cover may vary if published by different companies.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Ali Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCategories:  \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/fiction\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePages: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: local\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCover: Softcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBook description :\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"contentContainer\" class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAutumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. That's what it felt like for Keats in 1819.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow about Autumn 2016?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdom is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLove is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAli Smith's new novel is a meditation on a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, on what harvest means. This first in a seasonal quartet casts an eye over our own time. Who are we? What are we made of? Shakespearian jeu d'esprit, Keatsian melancholy, the sheer bright energy of 1960s Pop art: the centuries cast their eyes over our own history-making.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere's where we're living. Here's time at its most contemporaneous and its most cyclic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the imagination of the peerless Ali Smith comes a shape-shifting series, wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories, and a story about ageing and time and love and stories themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere comes\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAutumn\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__gradientOverlay\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"Button__container\"\u003e\u003cbutton aria-label=\"Tap to show more book description\" class=\"Button Button--tertiary Button--medium\" type=\"button\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Button__labelItem\"\u003eShow more\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ali Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43726373191862,"sku":"","price":545.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/1794\/2710\/files\/28446947.jpg?v=1736900252"},{"product_id":"winter-a-novel-seasonal-quartet-book-2","title":"Winter: A Novel (Seasonal Quartet) Book 2","description":"\u003cp\u003e(NOTE: The Book cover may vary if published by different companies.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Ali Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCategories:  \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/fiction\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePages: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: local\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCover: Softcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBook description :\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe dazzling second novel in Ali Smith’s essential\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeasonal Quartet\u003c\/i\u003e—from the Baileys Prize-winning, Man Booker-shortlisted author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAutumn\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to be Both\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinter? Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. The shortest days, the longest nights. The trees are bare and shivering. The summer’s leaves? Dead litter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe world shrinks; the sap sinks.\u003cbr\u003eBut winter makes things visible. And if there’s ice, there’ll be fire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Ali Smith's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinter\u003c\/i\u003e, lifeforce matches up to the toughest of the seasons. In this second novel in her acclaimed\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeasonal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecycle, the follow-up to her sensational\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAutumn\u003c\/i\u003e, Smith's shape-shifting quartet of novels casts a merry eye over a bleak post-truth era with a story rooted in history, memory and warmth, its taproot deep in the evergreens: art, love, laughter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s the season that teaches us survival.\u003cbr\u003eHere comes\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinter\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__gradientOverlay\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"Button__container\"\u003e\u003cbutton type=\"button\" class=\"Button Button--tertiary Button--medium\" aria-label=\"Tap to show more book description\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Button__labelItem\"\u003eShow more\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ali Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43726375256246,"sku":"","price":550.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/1794\/2710\/files\/34516974.jpg?v=1736900435"},{"product_id":"spring-a-novel-seasonal-quartet-book-3","title":"Spring: A Novel (Seasonal Quartet) Book 3","description":"\u003cp\u003e(NOTE: The Book cover may vary if published by different companies.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Ali Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCategories:  \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/fiction\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePages: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: local\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCover: Softcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBook description :\u003cspan\u003eSpring will come. The leaves on its trees will open after blossom. Before it arrives, a hundred years of empire-making. The dawn breaks cold and still but, deep in the earth, things are growing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ali Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43726376435894,"sku":"","price":615.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/1794\/2710\/files\/40545817.jpg?v=1736900584"},{"product_id":"summer-a-novel-seasonal-quartet-book-4","title":"Summer: A Novel (Seasonal Quartet) Book 4","description":"\u003cp\u003e(NOTE: The Book cover may vary if published by different companies.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Ali Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCategories:  \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/fiction\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePages: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: local\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCover: Softcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBook description :\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eIn the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etrouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile the world's in meltdown - and the real meltdown hasn't even started yet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they're living on borrowed time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a story about people on the brink of change. They're family, but they think they're strangers. So: where does family begin? And what do people who think they've got nothing in common have in common?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSummer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__gradientOverlay\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"Button__container\"\u003e\u003cbutton type=\"button\" class=\"Button Button--tertiary Button--medium\" aria-label=\"Tap to show more book description\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Button__labelItem\"\u003eShow more\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ali Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43726377320630,"sku":"","price":710.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/1794\/2710\/files\/52842705.jpg?v=1736900810"},{"product_id":"how-to-be-both","title":"How to Be Both","description":"\u003ch5\u003e(NOTE: The Book cover may vary if published by different companies.)\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAuthor:  \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/ali-smith\"\u003eAli Smith\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBinding: SOFTBACK\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eCategory: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/historical-fiction\"\u003eHISTORICAL FICTION\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003ePublisher: LOCAL\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003ePages: 487\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the book:\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003ePassionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith’s novels are like nothing else. A true original, she is a one-of-a-kind literary sensation. Her novels consistently attract serious acclaim and discussion—and have won her a dedicated readership who are drawn again and again to the warmth, humanity and humor of her voice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to be both\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a novel all about art’s versatility. Borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it’s a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There’s a Renaissance artist of the 1460s. There’s the child of a child of the 1960s. 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