Gliff

Smith, Ali, 1962-2024

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'Gliff' - a Scots or Northern word for a glimpse, a shock, a glance - will not only tell its own story but also contain within it a hidden story, to be revealed only in a second novel, 'Glyph' - from the Greek, meaning a mark, carving or symbol - to be published a year later. In form and feeling, 'Gliff' will light a new, fabular and fabulist path for Ali Smith and for us through the gathering darkness of our chaotic times.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.