Zadie Smith

Swing Time

Sprache: Englisch.

kartoniert , 453 Seiten

ISBN 0241980267

EAN 9780241980262

Veröffentlicht Juli 2017

Verlag/Hersteller Penguin Books Ltd (UK)

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Smith's finest. Extraordinary, truly marvellous Observer Superb Financial Times Breathtaking TLS Pitch-perfect, Daily Telegraph ;A tale of two girls who meet in a West London dance class... A page-turner that beautifully written Glamour. There is still no better chronicler of the modern British family than Zadie Smith TelegraphSHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017 A dazzlingly exuberant new novel moving from north west London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On BeautyTwo brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, black bodies and black music, what it means to belong, what it means to be free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten either.Bursting with energy, rhythm and movement, Swing Time is Zadie Smith's most ambitious novel yet. It is a story about music and identity, race and class, those who follow the dance and those who lead it . .