Blackbirds 2018: Zadie Smith, Swing Time

Literature level 5
Language level d

Target audience
Adult readers

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…

Review
‘This novel is beautifully written, incredibly expansive and brings up awesome philosophical questions. There are so many layers to this novel, that one could go on dissecting this for a very long time. I highly recommend this book to everyone.’
Marie, www.goodreads.com

Lees ook van Zadie Smith:
White Teeth (2000)
The Autograph Man (2002)
On Beauty (2005)
NW (2012)

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