{"product_id":"glyph","title":"Glyph","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom a literary master, a novel of ghosts and history and family legacy, of the unexpected acts of care that shine light into our dark.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGhosts don't exist. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThey don't. End of. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStory, however. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt is haunting. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEverything tells it. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find themselves making up a ghost. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIs it imaginary? Is it real? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat to do? She phones her sister. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a chiarascuro dance through our increasingly antagonistic era, \u003ci\u003eGlyph \u003c\/i\u003easks if we're attending to the history that's made us and to the history we're making. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA funny, warm and clear-eyed take on where we are now, \u003ci\u003eGlyph \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0593701585\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780593701584\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Smith, Ali\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Pantheon Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Pantheon Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (May 2026)","offer_id":46080534806725,"sku":"9780593701584","price":26.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780593701584.jpg?v=1776038142","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/glyph","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}