by Zadie Smith · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141036601
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«Swing Time» is a literary fiction novel by Zadie Smith, published by Penguin Books in paperback (453 pages, in English).
The unnamed narrator recalls her London childhood with Tracey, whom she met in a dance class. Only Tracey has talent for dancing; the other cultivates ideas about rhythm, time, black music and freedom. Their friendship breaks in their twenties. The novel moves from London to West Africa and addresses identity, class and belonging.
Originally published in 2016, this paperback edition is from 2017 and the novel was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and reading groups, with an interest in female friendship, identity and black British culture.
Zadie Smith is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, White Teeth, published in 2000, was an immediate best-seller and won a number of awards. Smith became a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty of New York University in September 2010.
