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In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north-west London lives the last day of his life.
A mother looks back on her early forays into matters of the human heart, considering the destructive nature of desire.
A disgraced cop stands amid the broken shards of his life, unable to move forward into a future that holds no place for him.
A teenager chases spectres through virtual reality, trailed by a little girl with a runny nose and no surviving family.
We all take a much-needed break from this mess, on a package holiday where the pool's electric blue is endless, while political and environmental collapse happen far away to someone else.
Zadie Smith presents a sharply alert and slyly prescient collection about time and place, identity and rebirth, the persistent legacies that haunt our present selves and the uncanny futures that rush up to meet us.
About the Author
Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty and NW, as well as The Embassy of Cambodia and a collection of essays, Changing My Mind.
She 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.
Zadie Smith lives in London and New York with her husband and two children. Swing Time is her fifth novel.
Industry Reviews
-- Dolly Alderton
Sexy and hilarious . . . There is no moment in Grand Union when we are not entertained,or doubt that we are in the company of one of our best contemporary writers.
* Guardian *
Smart and bewitching, the modern world is refracted in ways that are both playful and rigorous, formally experimental and socially aware... Smith exercises her range without losing her wry, slightly cynical humour. Readers of all tastes will find something memorable in this collection
* Publisher's Weekly *
She's already one of our best novelists and essayists, this reminds us that her short stories are right up there too
* Observer *
Bewitching
* Publisher's Weekly *
The stories in Grand Union address both eternal existential queries and decidedly contemporary concerns.
* FT *
ISBN: 9780241983126
ISBN-10: 0241983126
Published: 20th October 2020
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 256
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Penguin UK
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 2.1 x 12.8 x 19.6
Weight (kg): 0.19
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