Gliff - Signed First Edition
Gliff - Signed First Edition
by Smith, Ali | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published 31/10/2024 by Penguin Books Ltd (Hamish Hamilton Ltd) in the United Kingdom
Hardback | 240 pages
222 x 138mm | 400g
Signed First Edition - Hardback - Publishes October 31st
O brave new world, that has such people in't.
Once upon a time not very far from now, two children come home to find a line of wet red paint encircling the outside of their house.
What does it mean?
It’s a truism of our time that it’ll be the next generation who’ll sort out our increasingly toxic world.
What would that actually be like?
In a state turned hostile, a world of insiders and outsiders, what things of the past can sustain them and what shape can resistance take?
And what’s a horse got to do with any of this?
Gliff is a novel about how we make meaning and how we are made meaningless. With a nod to the traditions of dystopian fiction, a glance at the Kafkaesque, and a new take on the notion of classic, it's a moving and electrifying read, a vital and prescient tale of the versatility and variety deep-rooted in language, in nature and in human nature.