Swing time - Zadie Smith

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Title
Swing time - LONGLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
Author
Zadie Smith
format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
Language
English
UK Publication Date
20161115

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017

'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's also beautifully written '
Glamour

'There is still no better chronicler of the modern British family than Zadie Smith' Telegraph

SHORTLISTED 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 Beauty

Two 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 . . .

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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, and a collection of essays, Changing My Mind. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. White Teeth won multiple literary awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. On Beauty was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and NW was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Satisfying and thoughtful
Daily Telegraph

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

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

[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... The novel 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

Endlessly satisfying... [Zadie Smith] has never written better. Pitch-perfect, masterful and sophisticated
Telegraph

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 and the unjustness of the world... interwoven with another beautiful story of the dances people do to rise above it all
Economist

Clever, funny, confident and kind. Her gift for language is a pleasure and her character shines through
Evening Standard

A sweeping meditation on race and identity... [Smith's] most ambitious work yet
Esquire

A nuanced, richly rewarding tale
Mail on Sunday

Type
BOOK
Edition
Export ed
Country of Publication
England
Number of Pages
464

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