Spring - Ali Smith

nA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK nLonglisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2020 n nWhat 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? n nSpring. The great connective.

n nWith an eye to the migrancy of story over time and riffing on Pericles, one of Shakespeare's most resistant and rollicking works, Ali Smith tell the impossible tale of an impossible time. In a time of walls and lockdown, Smith opens the door. n nThe time we're living in is changing nature.

Will it change the nature of story? n nHope springs eternal.n