Glyph

ספרה מ-2026 של הסופרת הסקוטית המוערכת אלי סמית, ששלושה מספריה היו מועמדים ברשימה הקצרה לפרס בּוּקר. 

It all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find themselves making up a ghost. Is it imaginary? Is it real?
Then it all starts again thirty years later when Petra, now estranged from Patch, finds a  phantom horse kicking the furniture to pieces in her bedroom. What to do? She phones her sister.
In a chiaroscuro dance through our increasingly antagonistic era, Glyph asks if we’re attending to the history that’s made us and to the history we’re making. A funny, warm and clear-eyed take on where we are now, Glyph is about what our imaginations are for and how, in a broken, brutal and divided time, we rekindle care, solidarity, resistance and openness.
This anti-war novel, Ali Smith’s most soulful, playful and vital yet, is a work of lightness that goes deep to counter the forces currently flattening the modern world. 
A standalone novel, it’s family to Gliff (2024).