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Autumn

by Ali Smith · 2016

Literary Fiction · ranked #77 in category

Elisabeth Demand visits her elderly friend Daniel Gluck in a care home as he drifts in and out of sleep and consciousness. Interwoven with their relationship across decades is a fragmented portrait of Britain in the weeks after the 2016 Brexit vote. The first of Smith's Seasonal Quartet and one of the first literary novels to respond directly to Brexit.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2016 · 2010s
Author
Ali Smith
Standing
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