Swing Time
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,...
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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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141036601 (0141036605)
Publish date: 2017-07-06
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 453
Edition language: English
Ewig lange habe ich mich vor dieser Rezension gedrückt, sie vor mir hergeschoben und mir den Kopf über meine Beurteilung zerbrochen. Dies geschah aber nicht aus dem Grund, dass ich nicht gerne Verrisse schreiben würde, im Gegenteil, da laufe ich oft in punkto Bösartigkeit und Humor zu meiner Höchstf...
Am Ende von Zadie Smiths neustem Roman „Swing Time“ weiß der Leser so ziemlich alles über die Protagonistin. Nur nicht ihren Namen. Die Ich-Erzählerin wächst als Kind einer farbigen Mutter und eines weißen Vaters in einem der ärmeren Londoner Stadtteile auf. Sie interessiert sich leidenschaftlich ...
Swing Time-Zadie Smith, author, Pippa Bennett-Warner, narrator The novel is set between London, England and a community in West Africa. The main character, who remains unnamed throughout the novel, is our narrator. Beginning when she is seven years old, she describes her attraction to and budding fr...
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