VERANO
Verano, novela ganadora del Premio Orwell 2021 de Ficción Política, es el último volumen del Cuarteto estacional de Ali Smith. «Todo el mundo dijo: ¿y? Como en ¿y qué? Como en encogerse de hombros, o ¿y qué esperas que haga al respecto?, o me importa una mierda, o lo apruebo, me parece bien». Último volumen del Cuarteto estacional. Sacha sabe que al mundo le sobran problemas. Su hermano Robert simplemente es un problema. Su madre y su padre están teniendo problemas. Mientras tanto, el planeta está colapsando y la verdadera debacle aún no ha comenzado.En el pasado, un hermoso verano. Esta es una historia sobre personas al borde del cambio. Son familia, pero creen que son extraños. Entonces, ¿dónde empieza la familia? ¿Y qué tienen en común las personas que piensan que no tienen nada en común? El verano.
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SMITH ALI
Ali Smith CBE FRSL born August 1962 in Inverness is a Scottish writer.
She was born to working-class parents, raised in a council house in Inverness and now lives in Cambridge. She studied at the University of Aberdeen and then at Newnham College, Cambridge, for a PhD that she never finished. She worked as a lecturer at University of Strathclyde until she fell ill with CFS ME. Following this she became a full-time writer and now writes for The Guardian, The Scotsman, and the Times Literary Supplement. Openly gay, she lives in Cambridge with her partner filmmaker Sarah Wood.
In 2007 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
In 2009, she donated the short story Last previously published in the Manchester Review Online to Oxfam's 'Ox-Tales' project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Her story was published in the 'Fire' collection.
Smith was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to literature.
