The Man Booker-shortlisted author of Autumn and Winter presents a highly anticipated third entry in a celebrated series of stand-alone, metaphorically interconnected novels. By the award-winning author of How to Be Both. Presents the third entry in the author's series of stand-alone, metaphorically interconnected novels. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
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What 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?
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With 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.
The time we're living in is changing nature. Will it change the nature of story?
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