SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014Īli Smith's new novel, Companion piece, is available now. WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014 'She's a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense' Alain de Botton 'Brims with palpable joy' Daily Telegraph Theres the child of a child of the 1960s. Theres a renaissance artist of the 1460s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real - and all life's givens get given a second chance. Borrowing from paintings fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, its a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths, and fictions. After you've completed HOW TO BE BOTH, it's an interesting exercise to go back and imagine how you would have experienced it differently had you read the two halves in the opposite order. There's the child of a child of the 1960s. Throughout, Smith's characteristic wordplay, humor and inventiveness make for an incomparably energetic reading experience. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. In return the reader is rewarded with a love story, albeit one structured and told in a. How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. How to Be Both is poetic, philosophical and challenges its reader.
Her writing lifts the soul' Evening Standard WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2015
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