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The Seasons QuartetSeries

This series delves into the depths of human connection and the passage of time through four narratives inspired by the seasons. Each novel explores the intertwined lives of characters whose paths cross in unexpected ways, often mediated by art and mutual companionship. The works are characterized by their lyrical prose and thoughtful reflections on contemporary social issues. It offers an immersive reading experience that leaves a lasting impression.

Jesień. Pory roku. Tom 1
Autumn
Spring
Winter
Summer

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  1. 1

    Autumn

    3.7(61677)Add rating

    "The first of four novels in a shape-shifting series, wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories. Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy and the colour-hit of Pop Art - via a bit of very contemporary skulduggery and skull-diggery - Autumn is a witty excavation of the present by the past. The novel is a stripped-branches take on popular culture, and a meditation, in a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, what harvest means. Autumn is part of the quartet Seasonal- four stand-alone novels, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as the seasons are), exploring what time is, how we experience it, and the recurring markers in the shapes our lives take and in our ways with narrative."

    Autumn
  2. 1

    Jesień. Pory roku. Tom 1

    3.5(1096)Add rating

    Czterokrotna finalistka Nagrody Bookera, uznawana za najwybitniejszą współczesną szkocką pisarkę i jej pierwsza powieść z czterotomowego cyklu „Pory Roku”! Ponad stuletni Daniel Gluck mieszka w domu spokojnej starości. Trzydziestoletnia Elisabeth Demand, która w dzieciństwie wbrew woli swej matki zaprzyjaźniła się z mieszkającym wówczas po sąsiedzku Danielem, teraz czuwa przy łóżku śpiącego starca, rozmyślając o ich dziwnej relacji, która ukształtowała ją na całe życie. Daniel we śnie przeżywa własne wspomnienia, a w tle tych dwóch pełnych wymownych detali reminiscencji Wielka Brytania szykuje się do Brexitu i rozprawy z emigrantami. To pierwsza i od razu niezwykle znacząca powieść, która mierzy się z nową rzeczywistością społeczną Wielkiej Brytanii i reszty Europy. Książka trafiła do finału Nagrody Bookera 2017.

    Jesień. Pory roku. Tom 1
  3. 2

    Winter

    • 336 pages
    • 12 hours of reading
    3.8(32404)Add rating

    When four people, strangers and family, converge on a fifteen-bedroom house in Cornwall for Christmas, will there be enough room for everyone?

    Winter
  4. 3

    Spring

    • 352 pages
    • 13 hours of reading
    4.1(11032)Add rating

    SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A 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. 'Her best yet, a dazzling hymn to hope, uniting the past and present with a chorus of voices' Observer What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in modern times? Spring. The great connective. With an eye to the migrancy of story over time, and riffing on Pericles, one of Shakespeare's most resistant and rollicking works, Ali Smith tells the impossible tale of an impossible time. In a time of walls and lockdown Smith opens the door. The time we're living in is changing nature. Will it change the nature of story? Hope springs eternal. Discover all four instalments: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. Ali Smith's new novel, Companion piece, is available now. ***** 'An astonishing accomplishment and a book for all seasons' Independent 'Smith is a masterful storyteller . . . Savour it' Evening Standard 'Infectious in its energy and warmth' Daily Telegraph

    Spring
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    Summer

    4.0(465)Add rating

    In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile the world's in meltdown - and the real meltdown hasn't even started yet. In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they're living on borrowed time. This is a story about people on the brink of change. They're family, but they think they're strangers. So- where does family begin? And what do people who think they've got nothing in common have in common? Summer.

    Summer