
Swing Time
Longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize
By: Zadie Smith
Paperback | 17 July 2017 | Edition Number 1
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Can we ever truly escape our origins?
Must we dance to the music of our time?
Set in London, New York and West Africa, Swing Time is about two brown girls from Willesden who dream of being dancers. Only one - Tracey - has the talent. But the other has ideas which take her further than she could ever have imagined. It is a story of finding happiness in the meanest of places and feeling sad when all around you are happy. It's about the choices we make and the choices made for us. Above all, it's a tale of the friendships that anchor us, define us, and change us forever.
Industry Reviews
Publisher's description. Dazzlingly energetic and deeply human, Swing Time is Zadie Smith's most ambitious novel yet: a story about friendship and music and true identity, how they shape us and how we can survive them. Moving from north-west London to West Africa, it is an exuberant dance to the music of time. * Penguin *
Endlessly satisfying... [Zadie Smith] has never written better. Pitch-perfect, masterful and sophisticated * Telegraph *
Zadie Smith is the best writer of our generation, and Swing Time is her best book to date. As the title promises, the novel swings and pulsates with life, filled with emotion, excited by intellect and haunted by sadness. What a miracle that literature can still do things other forms of art cannot. What a miracle that Zadie Smith is among us, writing. -- Gary Shteyngart
Clever, funny, confident and kind. Her gift for language is a pleasure and her character shines through * Evening Standard *
[Smith] packs more intelligence, humour and sheer energy into any given scene than anyone else of her generation * Sunday Telegraph *
Zadie Smith's finest novel. Extraordinary, virtuosic... [It] does what only literature can and what only great literature will: forces us to assess the very vocabulary with which we speak of human experience * Observer *
Zadie Smith at her finest... [An] unflinching portrait of friendship... [A] triumph * Guardian *
Ingenious, inspired... Zadie Smith's new novel is very good indeed * Sunday Times *
Shrewd observation and sly satire, profundity and genuine purpose, as well as some of the most heart-stoppingly lyrical writing of her career * Scotland on Sunday *
A powerful story of lives marred by secrets, unfulfilled potential, the unjustness of the world...and the dances people do to rise above it all * Economist *
A sweeping meditation on race and identity... [Smith's] most ambitious work yet * Esquire *
A nuanced, richly rewarding tale * Mail on Sunday *
ISBN: 9780141036601
ISBN-10: 0141036605
Published: 17th July 2017
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 464
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Penguin UK
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 19.5 x 13 x 3.5
Weight (kg): 0.32
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