Zadie Smith
1) The fraud
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
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 skeptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully...
3) Swing time
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Formats
Description
An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North-West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On BeautyTwo brown girls dream of being dancersbut 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...
5) NW
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
401 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
"Four Londoners--Leah, Natalie, Felix, and Nathan--try to make adult lives outside of Caldwell, the council estate of their childhood. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their London is a complicated place, as beautiful as it is brutal, where the thoroughfares hide the back alleys and taking the high road can sometimes lead you to a dead end."--From publisher's information.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 25 cm
Description
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 her inimitable voice to mine the fraught and complex experience of life in the modern world. Interleaving eleven completely new and unpublished stories with some of her best-loved pieces from The New Yorker and elsewhere, Smith presents a dizzyingly...
7) The surprise
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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 herindividuality"--
8) Grand union
Author
Publisher
Narrativa Salamandra
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A traves de diversas perspectivas, desde lo historico y lo actual hasta la mas absoluta distopia, Grand Union es una reflexion estimulante y profetica 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 - autoficcion, experimentacion formal, ciencia ficcion, surrealismo, satira social, parabola y hasta una historia...
Author
Description
Die Königs Erläuterung zu Zadie Smith: The Embassy of Campodia ist eine verlässliche und bewährte Textanalyse und Interpretationshilfe für Schüler und weiterführende Informationsquelle für Lehrer und andere Interessierte: verständlich, übersichtlich und prägnant. Mithilfe der ausführlichen Inhaltsangabe, Informationen zu Leben und Werk des Autors, zur Textanalyse und -interpretation sowie Abituraufgaben mit Lösungstipps sind Schüler...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
448 pages ; 21 cm
Description
At the center of this invigorating 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. A second marriage to Clara Bowden, a beautiful, albeit tooth-challenged, Jamaican half his age, quite literally gives Archie a second lease on life, and produces Irie, a knowing child whose personality doesn't quite match her name...
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Description
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Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
"Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only later to find each other again at a diner, a grocery store, and again at a protest. Seemingly at opposite ends of every problem, and at each other's throats each time they meet, the two women still cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience...