Longlisted for theMan Booker Prize 2017Read the first chapter of Swing Time
The rest of it,all the detail,fell away... The story was the price you paid for the rhythm.
On an unremarkable Saturday in 1982,two girls meet. Two brown girls who both dream of being dancers - but only one,Tracey,has talent; a talent so undeniable she is taught to rely on it as a promise,as a way out. The other is taught she has ideas: about rhythm and time,about black bodies and black music,what constitutes a tribe,or makes a person truly free. She is taught her future is her own to decide.
Theirs a close but complicated childhood friendship that halts abruptly in their early twenties as their two paths diverge and their lives dance out of each other's view,but never out oftheirshadow.
Dazzlingly energetic and deeply human,Swing Timeis a story about friendship and music and stubborn roots,about how we are shaped by these things and how we can survive them. Moving from north-west London to West Africa,it is a story about the turn and dip and sway of lives in endless,perpetual motion; an exuberant dance to the music of time.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141036601Number of pages: 464Weight: 321 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 28 mm
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'Zadie Smith at her finest... (An) unflinching portrait of friendship... (A) triumph.'- The Guardian
'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.'- The Observer
'Ingenious,inspired... Zadie Smith's new novel is very good indeed.'- The Sunday Times
Zadie Smith
A highly acclaimed and strikingly influential novelist,British author Zadie Smith burst on to the literary scene with her sharp and funny debut White Teeth.
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