Swing Time: LONGLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017 - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0141036605 ISBN 13: 9780141036601

Casa editrice: Penguin, 2025

Riassunto

LONGLIST PER IL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 SELEZIONATO PER I NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017 "Il migliore di Smith. Straordinario, veramente meraviglioso" Observer Un romanzo abbagliantemente esuberante che si sposta dal nord-ovest di Londra all'Africa occidentale, dall'autore acclamato dalla critica di White Teeth, On Beauty e Grand Union Due ragazze di colore sognano di diventare ballerine, ma solo una, Tracey, ha talento. L'altra ha delle idee: sul ritmo e il tempo, sui corpi neri e sulla musica nera, su cosa significhi appartenere, cosa significhi essere liberi. È un'amicizia infantile intima ma complicata che finisce bruscamente nei loro primi vent'anni, mai più rivisitata, ma mai del tutto dimenticata. Pieno di energia, ritmo e movimento, Swing Time è il romanzo più ambizioso di Zadie Smith. È una storia di musica e identità, razza e classe, coloro che seguono la danza e coloro che la guidano. "Superbo" Financial Times "Straordinario" TLS "Perfetto" Daily Telegraph "Non esiste ancora un cronista migliore della moderna famiglia britannica di Zadie Smith" Telegraph.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia; three collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free and Intimations; a collection of short stories, Grand Union; and the play, The Wife of Willesden, adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London, where she still lives. The Fraud is her first historical novel.

Date: 2013-08-06
Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975. She is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time, as well as The Embassy of Cambodia and the essay collection, Changing My Mind. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has twice been listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists. She has won the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award among many others, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.

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North London in the twenty-first century: a place where a son will swiftly adopt an old lady and take her home from hospital to impersonate his dear departed mother, rather than lose the council flat. A time of golden job opportunities, though you might have to dress up as a coffee bean or work as an intern at an undertaker or put up with champagne and posh French dinners while your boss hits on you. A place rich in language - whether it's Romanian, Ukrainian, Russian, Swahili or buxom housing officers talking managementese. A place where husbands go absent without leave and councillors sacrifice cherry orchards at the altar of new builds. Marina Lewycka is back in this hilarious, farcical, tender novel of modern issues and manners.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0141036605
• ISBN 13: 9780141036601
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 464
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