# Gliff

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/ali-smith/gliff/9781405962827

JSON version (same data): https://www.bookquiver.com/ali-smith/gliff/9781405962827.json

![Gliff](https://quivercdn.com/covers/penguin/ali-smith/gliff_978-14-0596-282-7-b1907168.webp?v=2026-10-14%2002%3A44%3A36)

- Book: [Gliff](https://www.bookquiver.com/ali-smith/gliff) ([Gliff.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ali-smith/gliff.md))
- Authors: [Ali Smith](https://www.bookquiver.com/ali-smith)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: audio
- Length: 4 h 57 min
- ISBN: 978-14-0596-282-7
- Published: 2024-10-31
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 4 h 57 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. O brave new world, that has such people in't . Once upon a time not very far from now, two children come home to find a line of wet red paint encircling the outside of their house. What does it mean? It’s a truism of our time that it’ll be the next generation who’ll sort out our increasingly toxic world. What would that actually be like? In a state turned hostile, a world of insiders and outsiders, what things of the past can sustain them and what shape can resistance take? And what’s a horse got to do with any of this? Gliff is a novel about how we make meaning and how we are made meaningless. With a nod to the traditions of dystopian fiction, a glance at the Kafkaesque, and a new take on the notion of classic, it's a moving and electrifying read, a vital and prescient tale of the versatility and variety deep-rooted in language, in nature and in human nature. ©2025 Ali Smith (P)2025 Penguin Audio