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In 'Het een als het ander' vertelt Ali Smith twee levensverhalen: dat van het Engelse tienermeisje George anno 2013 en van Renaissanceschilder Francesco anno 1460. George, die onlangs haar moeder heeft verloren, raakt gefascineerd door het werk van Francesco, terwijl de schilder het rouwende meisje vanuit een andere dimensie observeert. Beide levensverhalen raken op onverwachte manieren met elkaar verstrengeld.

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Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of many novels, including most recently Autumn, Winter and Spring in the 'Seasonal' quartet. Her 2014 novel How to be both won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel of the Year Award. She has also been shortlisted once for the Orwell Prize, twice for the Orange Prize and four times for the Man Booker Prize, among many other prizes. Ali Smith li...

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From the astonishingly talented writer of "The Accidental "and "Hotel World "comes Ali Smith's brilliant retelling of Ovid's gender-bending myth of Iphis and Ianthe, as seen through the eyes of two Scottish sisters. "Girl Meets Boy "is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, and the absurdity of consumerism, as well as a story of reversals and revelations that is as sharply witty as it is lyrical. Funny, fresh, poetic, ...

These are not fictions. Nor are they testimonies from some distant, brutal past, but the frighteningly common experiences of Europe's new underclass - its refugees.

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Filled with Ali Smith's trademark wordplay and inventive storytelling, here is the dizzyingly entertaining, wickedly humorous story of a mysterious stranger whose sudden appearance during a family's summer holiday transforms four variously unhappy people. Each of the Smarts-parents Eve and Michael, son Magnus, and the youngest, daughter Astrid-encounter Amber in his or her own solipsistic way, but somehow her presence allows them to see their ...

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The Accidental is at once a mysterious story of secret identities and a ruthlessly honest look at the silent cracks that can develop unnoticed in relationships over time. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2005, Whitbread Novel Award 2005 and the Saltire Award 2005. 'Funny, sexy, poignant, bewitching' Observer

Five women: four are alive, three are foreigners, two are sisters, one is dead ?they have all been in this hotel. Their hopes and disappointments roam freely through the hallways, sheltered by its walls as each crosses the path of the other without ever giving a thought to the sheer coincidence of their encounters. Hotel World invites us to join them for a night in their existence. In this novel, opposite worlds collide, resulting in the affir...

Intorno al lussuoso Global Hotel si incrociano i destini di cinque donne: Sara, una giovane cameriera morta accidentalmente all'interno dell'albergo, Lise, una receptionist dall'inattesa generosità, Else, una mendicante che per poche ore viene ammessa in quel mondo di comfort e privilegio, Penny, una giornalista più smaniosa di ricevere attenzione che in grado di darne, e Clare, la sorella di Sara, che cerca di fare i conti con la sua scompars...

Full of pieces from amazing writers, this treasure trove is a personal anthology of what Ali Smith loves best--and without which she would not have become an award-winning writer.

From the Whitbread Award-winning author of "The Accidental" and "Hotel World" comes this stunning collection of stories set in a world of everyday dislocation, where people nevertheless find connection, mystery, and love. These tales are of ordinary but poignant beauty: at the pub, strangers regale each other with memories of Christmases past, lovers share tales over dinner about how they met, their former lovers, and each other, a woman even ...