Name: Glyph
Price: 434.00 ZAR
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Author: Ali Smith
ISBN: 9780241665596

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Publisher

Hamish Hamilton Ltd

Author

Ali Smith

Year

2026

Pages

240

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.20 x 13.80 x 2.50 cm

ISBN13

9780241665596

Glyph

Ali Smith (Author) · Hamish Hamilton Ltd · Hardcover

New Book Imported to South Africa

Delivery: 25 Aug - 02 Sep

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Synopsis "Glyph"

Ghosts don't exist.
They don't. End of.
Story, however.
It is haunting.
Everything tells it.

It all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find themselves making up a ghost.
Is it imaginary? Is it real?

Then it all starts again thirty years later when Petra, now estranged from Patch, finds a phantom horse kicking the furniture to pieces in her bedroom.
What to do? She phones her sister.

In a chiaroscuro dance through our increasingly antagonistic era, Glyph asks if we’re attending to the history that’s made us and to the history we’re making. A funny, warm and clear-eyed take on where we are now, Glyph is about what our imaginations are for and how, in a broken, brutal and divided time, we rekindle care, solidarity, resistance and openness.

This anti-war novel, Ali Smith’s most soulful, playful and vital yet, is a work of lightness that goes deep to counter the forces currently flattening the modern world.

A standalone novel, it’s family to Gliff (2024).