{"product_id":"glyph-by-ali-smith","title":"Glyph by Ali Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780241665619\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHamish Hamilton, January 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e288 pages, Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGhosts don't exist. They don't. End of. Story, however. It is haunting. Everything tells it. 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).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"I H Pentz Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47295534497954,"sku":null,"price":395.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0364\/4047\/3732\/files\/download_615092fa-686f-4470-a1dd-a6d78d2fcefd.jpg?v=1780053020","url":"https:\/\/pentzbooks.co.za\/products\/glyph-by-ali-smith","provider":"I H Pentz Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}