by Zadie Smith · Penguin Press · tapa dura · ISBN 9780241144152
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An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from north west London to West Africa. Two brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly 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. Swing Time is a story about friendship and music and stubborn roots, about how we are shaped by these things and how we can survive them. An exuberant dance to the music of time.
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.
