![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It also came with a distinctive feature: written in two halves set 500 years apart, 50% of the copies were printed with the present day story first, and 50% started with the 15th century part. Smith’s previous novel, How to both, swept the United Kingdom’s literary slate in 2014, winning the Goldsmiths Prize, the Costa Novel of the Year, and the Bailey’s Prize, while being shortlisted for the Folio Prize and the Man Booker Prize, an unusual feat given the diverse criteria of each award. Here’s an old story so new that it’s still in the middle of happening, writing itself right now with no knowledge of where or how it’ll end.Īli Smith’s Autumn has claim to be the first Brexit based novel, published less than four months after the United Kingdom voted, on June 23rd, to leave the European Union in a referendum, surprising most pundits and exposing new political fault lines that cut across the usual left / right divide. ![]()
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