by Ali Smith · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141010397
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«The Accidental» is Ali Smith's contemporary fiction novel, published by Penguin in paperback (320 pages, in English).
An English family spends a few days at their vacation home in Norfolk, and the arrival of Amber, a stranger who knocks on their door with unexpected gifts, completely disrupts their coexistence. Each member of the Smart family ends up questioning their own certainties and secrets, in a novel that plays with chance, truth and the power of storytelling.
The novel won the Whitbread Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize (2005) and the Orange Prize (2006); this paperback edition dates from 2006.
Recommended for book clubs and for readers of contemporary literary fiction who enjoy portraits of family life.
Ali Smith CBE FRSL is a Scottish author, playwright, academic and journalist. Sebastian Barry described her in 2016 as "Scotland's Nobel laureate-in-waiting."
