Zadie Smith
1) The fraud
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper-and cousin by marriage-of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully...
2) Swing time
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Two dancers with different approaches to their craft share a complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, in a story that transitions from northwest London to West Africa.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the center of this novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of England's irrevocable transformation in post-war London.--Adapted from publisher's website.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Swing Time and one of the most revered writers of her generation comes an "intelligent ... exquisitely clever [novel] about fame, mortality, and the triumph of image over reality” (The Boston Globe).
Alex-Li Tandem sells autographs. His business is to hunt for names on paper, collect them, sell them, and occasionally fake them—all to give the people...
Alex-Li Tandem sells autographs. His business is to hunt for names on paper, collect them, sell them, and occasionally fake them—all to give the people...
6) The surprise
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Meet Maud: a guinea pig who inexplicably wears a judo suit--and not everyone understands or approves. When Maud is thrown into a new and confusing situation, it takes brave decisions and serendipitous encounters for her to find her place and embrace her individuality"--
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A dazzling collection of short fiction, more than half of which have never been published before, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and Swing Time Zadie Smith has established herself as one of the most iconic, critically-respected, and popular writers of her generation. In her first short story collection, she combines her power of observation and inimitable voice to mine the fraught and complex experience of life in the modern world....
9) NW: a novel
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Growing up in the same 1970's urban planning development in Northwest London, four young people pursue independent and reasonably successful lives until one of them is abruptly drawn out of her isolation by a stranger who is seeking her help.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lock down, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time. "There will be many books written about the year 2020: historical, analytic, political and comprehensive accounts. This is not any of those -- the year isn't half-way done. What I've tried to do is organize some of the feelings and thoughts that events, so far, have provoked...
12) Grand union
Author
Publisher
Narrativa Salamandra
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"A través de diversas perspectivas, desde lo histórico y lo actual hasta la más absoluta distopía, Grand Union es una reflexión estimulante y profética sobre el tiempo y el espacio, la identidad y el renacimiento, los legados que acechan nuestro presente y los posibles futuros que amenazan con llegar. Con un despliegue de recursos formales - autoficción, experimentación formal, ciencia ficción, surrealismo, sátira social, parábola y hasta...
13) Tiempos de swing
Author
Series
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Ambientada desde los anos ochenta hasta la actualidad en Londres, Nueva York y Africa Occidental, cuenta la historia de dos intimas amigas, ambas hijas de matrimonios mixtos, que crecen en el heterogeneo y multirracial barrio de Willesden, en el norte de Londres. Se conocen en la infancia, unidas por el sueno de llegar a ser algun dia bailarinas, pero solo una de ellas, Tracey, tiene talento. La otra, la narradora, tiene inquietudes, que a lo largo...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"This inspirational book juxtaposes quotations, one to a page, drawn from Toni Morrison's entire body of work, both fiction and nonfiction--from The Bluest Eye to God Help the Child, from Playing in the Dark to The Source of Self-Regard--to tell a story of self-actualization. It aims to evoke the totality of Toni Morrison's literary vision. Its sequence of flashes of revelation--remarkable for their linguistic felicity, keenness of psychological observation,...