Winter

因《How to be both》榮獲女性小說獎及布克獎初選作家艾莉‧史密斯，繼季節四部曲系列《Autumn 》後再度推出第二部重點著作《Winter》艾莉‧史密斯延續一貫優美的文筆，繼續探討時間和經歷是如何塑造我們的生活。蒼涼的冬天，冷冽的冬風，土地凍如鋼鐵，最短暫的白晝及永無止盡的黑夜，沒有葉子的樹木宛如赤裸般在顫抖，夏日殘留的樹葉呢？早已全數死去。冬日的世界彷彿一點一滴在縮小，生命力也一點一滴在流失。但冬天讓萬物變得透明，如果有冰霜，就會有火焰。艾莉‧史密斯的《Winter》中，我們可以看見生命如何在最艱難的季節中生存，延續好評不斷的四季系列《Autumn》後，史密斯將場景轉移到蒼涼及後真相時代的背景，將歷史、記憶及熱情融合，創造一個有藝術、愛情與歡笑的冬之世界。冬日是一個教導我們該如何生存的季節，凜冬將至。The dazzling second novel in Ali Smith's essential Seasonal Quartet -- from the Baileys Prize-winning, Man Booker-shortlisted author of Autumn and How to be bothWinter? 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. The world shrinks; the sap sinks. But winter makes things visible. And if there's ice, there'll be fire. In Ali Smith's Winter, lifeforce matches up to the toughest of the seasons. In this second novel in her acclaimed Seasonal cycle, the follow-up to her sensational Autumn, 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. It's the season that teaches us survival. Here comes Winter.