The first of two new interconnected novels from bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author Ali Smith. A characteristically oblique and audacious tour de force revolving loosely around the concept of resistance in a dystopian society.
This is the logical evolution of the world Smith presented in the seasonal quartet: of brutal detention centres in which a for-profit security firm (“SA4A”) processes and renders human beings with a deliberate effacing of their individuality. The way those who find themselves on the outer edges of our society are treated has always been a signal theme of Smith’s work. In the dystopia of Gliff, not only is the government seeking to control and exclude those it deems undesirable; the fissures in society have become so wide that the rich seem not even to see the poor.
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