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Two girls dream of being dancers but only one has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, black bodies and black music, what it means to be free. The close childhood friendship ends abruptly but is never quite forgotten. Bursting with rhythm, movement and energy, it is a story about music and identity, race and class, those who follow the dance and those who lead it.

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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017

´Smith´s finest. Extraordinary, truly marvellous´ Observer

´Superb´ Financial Times ´Breathtaking´ TLS ´Pitch-perfect´ Daily Telegraph

´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 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 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 . . .

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Satisfying and thoughtful Daily Telegraph

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Smith, Zadie
Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time, as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia, and a collection of essays, Changing My Mind, and 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 awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. On Beauty was 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 a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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