Εκτεταμένη αναζήτηση
ESPA
SWING TIME PB

SWING TIME PB

Smith, Zadie

Εκδότης Penguin , ISBN 9780141036601


Read our exclusive author interviews with Zadie here





'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 ...

Περίληψη


Read our exclusive author interviews with Zadie here





'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 ...

Πληροφορίες προϊόντος

  • Συγγραφέας Smith, Zadie
  • Eκδότης Penguin
  • ISBN 9780141036601
  • Κωδικός Ευριπίδη 040100063619
  • Έτος κυκλοφορίας 2017
  • Σελίδες 0
  • Διαστάσεις
  • Βάρος 350 gr

Smith, Zadie

Συγγραφέας

H Zadie Smith γεννήθηκε το 1975 στο Λονδίνο όπου και ζει μέχρι σήμερα. Σπούδασε αγγλική φιλολογία στο Κέμπριτζ. Το 2003 συμπεριλήφθηκε στη λίστα των 20 καλύτερων νέων συγγραφέων του περίβλεπτου λογοτεχνικού περιοδικού Granta. Το πρώτο της μυθιστόρημα, "Λευκό χαμόγελο σε μαύρο φόντο" τιμήθηκε με τα βραβεία Guardian for first book, Whitbread First Novel, Whitbread Book of the Year, James Tait Black Memorial, British Book Awards Newcomer of the Year, Frankfurt eBook Award και Commonwealth Writer's First Book ενώ και το δεύτερο της βιβλίο, "Συλλέκτης αυτογράφων", δεν πέρασε απαρατήρητο. Τιμήθηκε με το βραβείο Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize for Fiction, ενώ ήταν υποψήφιο για τα βραβεία Orange και Booker. Το "Στην ομορφιά που χάνεται" είναι το αποτέλεσμα των προσπαθειών και της συγγραφικής ωριμότητάς της αφού τιμήθηκε το 2006 με τα βραβεία Orange, Somerset Maugham και Commonwealth Writers' Regional Award ενώ ήταν υποψήφιο για τα βραβεία Booker και IMPAC. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975. She is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty and NW, as well as 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 Beautywas 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 lives in London and New York with her husband and two children.

Κριτικές πελατών

Γράψτε μια κριτική

Τα νέα μας

Τo blog μας

Οι εκδηλώσεις μας

Παιδική εκδήλωση
Close

Παραλαβή απο κατάστημα

SWING TIME PB

Θα γίνει κράτηση στο όνομα σας και θα ειδοποιηθείτε με e-mail για την παραλαβή από το κατάστημα της επιλογής σας, αφού πρώτα επιβεβαιωθεί η πληρωμή .