{"product_id":"winter-4","title":"WINTER","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eThe dazzling second novel in Ali Smith's essential Seasonal Quartet -- from the Baileys Prize-winning, Man Booker-shortlisted author of Autumn and How to be both\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinter? 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe world shrinks; the sap sinks.\u003cbr\u003eBut winter makes things visible. And if there's ice, there'll be fire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Ali Smith's Winter, lifeforce matches up to the toughest of the seasons. In this second novel in her acclaimed Seasonal cycle, the follow-up to her sensational Autumn, Smith's shape-shifting quartet of novels 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's the season that teaches us survival.\u003cbr\u003eHere comes Winter.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ReadersParadise","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52454502203739,"sku":null,"price":4.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0538\/7105\/0923\/files\/9_2fa3d13b-a0e5-4f31-95b5-0c4d6a304efd.jpg?v=1771929830","url":"https:\/\/readersparadise.ie\/products\/winter-4","provider":"ReadersParadise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}