Swing Time by Zadie Smith

Swing Time by Zadie SmithLONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017SHORTLISTED 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

Full color

dramatizing Sontag's private griefs and fears

since its medieval foundation as twin fishing villages

powerful and ambiguous relationship between son and widower father

Tá Zog sona sásta sa Scoil Dragún

the village of La Matosa is rife with rumours about how and why this murder occurred

and the question of the future

the sound of 'blush words' that aren't in the Bible

In this walking-pace travelogue

loss and one woman's terrible choice between duty and personal freedom

'We have left dry land and put out to sea

Her final volume