Swing Time
LONGLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
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3.4 • 11 Ratings
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017
'Smith's finest. Extraordinary, truly marvellous' Observer
A dazzlingly exuberant novel moving from north west London to West Africa, from the critically acclaimed author of White Teeth, On Beauty and Grand Union
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 . . .
'Superb' Financial Times 'Breathtaking' TLS 'Pitch-perfect' Daily Telegraph
'There is still no better chronicler of the modern British family than Zadie Smith' Telegraph
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
We fell into a trance each time we picked up Zadie Smith’s novel about female friendship, racial identity and the magic of dance. Swing Time is narrated by a biracial Londoner from grade school into adulthood. Self-conscious and curious, she scrutinises her own belief systems and motivations, as well as those of the most important figures in her life—her parents, her brash childhood friend Tracey and a pop superstar named Aimee. Smith’s heroine gets wrapped up in major drama, but she stays cool and watchful…not unlike her author.
