The Bibliophile's Compass

Title : Winter Author : Ali Smith Publication Year : 2017 Rating : ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pages : 322 Source : physical book Genre : literary fiction, postmodernism, political fiction Awards : Orwell Prize Nominee for Longlist (2018), Europese Literatuurprijs Nominee (2019) After reading ten books by Ali Smith, I feel that whatever I write will inevitably become a repetition of whatever I have already said about her work — which, to be fair, is also something she does in her books, though with far more skill and fewer signs of intellectual exhaustion. One thing I may not have said before, however, is that Smith’s books have an almost transient quality. They move incredibly fast. You can easily read a 300-page novel in a day or two, provided you do not stop every five minutes to look up a reference, an artwork, a political event, a mythological allusion, or a word that suddenly makes you question your entire education. And this is where the problem begins. The books move quickly, but the intert...

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