Artful

This book is based on four lectures given by Ali Smith at Oxford University, the Weidenfeld lectures on European comparative literature. It has two fictional characters. One is a woman mourning her dead lover and the other is her dead lover who still seems to be present. She speaks to the mourning woman in Greek, steals belongings, and causes a nuisance. The dead woman was working on some lectures when she died, and the living one works with trees.