{"product_id":"winter-9780241973332","title":"Winter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Winter? 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The world shrinks; the sap sinks.\u003cbr\u003e But winter makes things visible. And if there's ice, there'll be fire. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In Ali Smith's \u003ci\u003eWinter\u003c\/i\u003e, lifeforce matches up to the toughest of the seasons. In this second novel in her acclaimed Seasonal cycle, the follow-up to her sensational \u003ci\u003eAutumn\u003c\/i\u003e, Smith 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e It's the season that teaches us survival. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Here comes Winter. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiscover all four instalments: \u003ci\u003eAutumn, Winter, Spring \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Summer.\u003c\/i\u003e Ali Smith's new novel, \u003ci\u003e Companion piece, \u003c\/i\u003eis available to pre-order now.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e***** \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Dazzling . . . Even in the bleak midwinter, Smith is evergreen' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Graceful, mischievous, joyful . . . Infused with some much-needed humour, happiness and hope'\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'A novel of great ferocity, tenderness and generosity of spirit . . . Luminously beautiful' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ali Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50900625981782,"sku":"9780241973332","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/3206\/6390\/files\/9780241973332.jpg?v=1753666009","url":"https:\/\/www.laufgard.com\/products\/winter-9780241973332","provider":"Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}