Ali Smith

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • From a literary master, a moving and genre-bending story about our era-spanning search for meaning and knowing An uncertain near-future. A story of new boundaries drawn between people daily. A not-very brave new world. Add two children. And a horse. From a Scottish word meaning a transient moment, a shock, a faint glimpse, Gliff explores how and why we endeavour to make a mark on the world. In a time when western industry wants to reduce us to algorithms and data—something easily categorizable and predictable—Smith shows us why our humanity, our individual complexities, matter more than ever.

A Novel

Gliff

Grace McCarter

– group of people, Leif was saying, decides to [     ] another group of people, it’s usually to show off power to themselves via the people they’ve designated as [     ]. And if [     ] can be made to feel, as you put it, temporary –

 meant something to do with making you feel something, I thought) 

– Oh, I see. Then it's going to be about their own status as immortals, our mother said. Because nobody alive wants to believe, or actually can believe, psychologically, that they're temporary. Though we all are. Everybody is. There's no them or us when it comes to 

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