Bøger af Zadie Smith

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Swing Time by Zadie Smtih, read by Pippa Bennett Warner. LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 Smiths 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 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. Its a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either... Dazzlingly energetic and deeply human, 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. Moving from north-west London to West Africa, it is an exuberant dance to the music of time.

WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEFrom the acclaimed author of Swing Time, White Teeth and Grand Union, discover a brilliantly funny and deeply mving story about love and family'I didn't want to finish, I was enjoying it so much' Evening Standard'Thrums with intellectual sass and know-how' Literary Review'Filled with humour, generosity and contemporary sparkle' Daily Telegraph 'Satirical, wise and sexy' Washington PostWhy do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful?Set between New England and London, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the confusions - both personal and political - of our uncertain age are about to be brought close to home: right to the heart of family.

From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Swing Time, On Beauty and Grand Union'BELIEVE THE HYPE' The Times'The almost preposterous talent was clear from the first pages' Julian Barnes, Guardian'Street-smart and learned, sassy and philosophical all at the same time' New York Times'Outstanding' Sunday Telegraph The international bestseller and modern classic of multicultural Britain - an unforgettable portrait of LondonOne of the most talked about debut novels of all time, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of coming back and biting you on the ankle, it is a life-affirming, riotous must-read of a book.

From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who deserves to tell their story - and about who deserves to be believedIt 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 and a moralist; and England of being a land of facades, in which nothing is quite what it seems.Andrew Bogle meanwhile grew up enslaved on the Hope Plantation, Jamaica. He knows every lump of sugar comes at a human cost. That the rich deceive the poor. And that people are more easily manipulated than they realise. When Bogle finds himself in London, star witness in a celebrated case of imposture, he knows his future depends on telling the right story.The 'Tichborne Trial' captivates Mrs Touchet and all of England. Is Sir Roger Tichborne really who he says he is? Or is he a fraud? Mrs Touchet is a woman of the world. Mr Bogle is no fool. But in a world of hypocrisy and self-deception, deciding what is real proves a complicated task...Based on real historical events, The Fraud is a dazzling novel about truth and fiction, Jamaica and Britain, fraudulence and authenticity, and the mystery of 'other people.'PRAISE FOR ZADIE SMITH:'A writer of remarkable wit and originality' Observer'[Smith] packs more intelligence, humour and sheer energy into any given scene than anyone else of her generation' Sunday Telegraph'A brilliant writer' A M Homes'She's a genius' Dolly Alderton'Zadie Smith is a national treasure' James Gleick'A tremendous talent . . . Smith is simply wonderful' Boyd Tonkin, Independent

I 1980’ernes London i den nordvestlige bydel Caldwell vokser fire unge mennesker op – Leah, Felix, Keisha og Nathan – som alle forsøger at finde vej i voksenlivet og storbyens flimrende udbud. Mens de kæmper med ambitioner, klasseforskelle og indre tomhed, udfordres deres forståelse af, hvem de er, og hvad de ønsker. I livets beslutninger såvel som i byen er alle gader valg, som enten kan føre til blindgyder eller succes, så man må træde varsomt for ikke at fare vild.NW er et råt og ærligt portræt af London og en tragikomisk og hjerteknusende roman om livets skrøbelighed og de flygtige, men vigtige møder, der former os – og en suveræn demonstration af, at Zadie Smiths forfatterskab aldrig taber pusten.

Engelske Howard Belsey er professor på et amerikansk universitet og står midt i en krise i sit ægteskab såvel som professionelt, hvor han kæmper for at fuldende sin store bog om Rembrandt. Hans rival, den konservative Rembrandt-ekspert Monty Kipps, gør kun Belseys udfordringer større. Og da Howards søn Jerome forelsker sig i Montys datter Victoria, samtidig med at et dødsfald udløser en uventet arv, ruller en række begivenheder, der ryster begge familier.OM SKØNHED er en fortælling om at jonglere ungdommens idealisme og voksenlivets forstokkethed midt i livets mange blindgyder. Denne tour de force beviser, hvorfor Zadie Smith står som en af vor tids mest indflydelsesrige og skarpsindige forfattere.

Velkommen til Londons nordvestkvarter, hvor liv flettes sammen på tværs af generationer og kulturer. Mød Archibald Jones, der søger mening i livet efter en fejlslagen selvmordsaktion, og hans ven Samad Iqbal, en bengalsk immigrant fanget mellem tradition og modernitet. Gennem deres familier udforskes arv, identitet og en by i hastig forandring.HVIDE TÆNDER er en skarp og munter roman, der maler et levende portræt af Londons mangfoldighed i slutningen af det 20. århundrede og sætter fokus på den skønhed og det kaos, der opstår, når forskellige verdener kolliderer. Det er Zadie Smiths episke debut om, hvem vi er, og hvad der former os.

To piger fra London drømmer om at blive dansere. Den ene har talentet, den anden er optaget af sorte kroppe og sort musik, og af, hvad det vil sige at høre til og føle sig fri. De udvikler et tæt og kompliceret venskab, som ender brat, da de er i begyndelsen af tyverne. Da deres veje krydses som voksne kvinder, har de begge forandret sig fundamentalt.SWING TIME er en sprudlende og ambitiøs samtidsroman, der bevæger sig mellem det nordvestlige London og Vestafrika, om venskab og store drømme, om dans og musik og om hvordan det kan være svært at frigøre sig fra sine rødder. Smiths uovertrufne evne til at balancere dybde og lethed cementerer hendes position i den litterære elite, hvor hun med sikker hånd fortsat udfordrer grænserne for, hvad den moderne roman kan udrette.

Sandhed og løgn. Jamaica og England. Hvem har ret til at fortælle? Zadie Smith er tilbage med sin første historiske roman.Kilburn, 1873. Tichborne-sagen har hele Englands udelte opmærksomhed, og enke og husholderske mrs. Eliza Touchet er ingen undtagelse. Folk er rygende uenige om, hvorvidt tiltalte er den, han siger han er – eller en bedrager.Mrs. Touchet er en kvinde med mange interesser: litteratur, kampen for de slavegjortes rettigheder, klassesamfundet, sin fætter som er romanforfatter og hans koner, det jordiske liv og evigheden. Men hun er også skeptisk anlagt og overbevist om at kun få ting er, som de ser ud.Andrew Bogle er kronvidne i Tichborne-sagen, og hans fremtid afhænger af at han fortæller den rette historie – hvis bare han vidste, hvad det ville sige. Med sin opvækst på en plantage i Jamaica i bagagen ved han, at hver en sukkerknald har menneskelige omkostninger. At de rige fører de fattige bag lyset. Og at mennesker er nemmere at manipulere med, end de selv ved af.Bedrageren er baseret på virkelige begivenheder. Et glitrende monument over en verden af hykleri og selvbedrag, hvor det at afgøre hvad der er sandt, er sværere, end man skulle tro.

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.

"A travâes de diversas perspectivas, desde lo histâorico y lo actual hasta la mâas absoluta distopâia, Grand Union es una reflexiâon estimulante y profâetica 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 - autoficciâon, experimentaciâon formal, ciencia ficciâon, surrealismo, sâatira social, parâabola y hasta una historia narrada por Dios - al alcance de muy pocos, Grand Union posee una fluidez y una libertad narrativas que recuerdan a una improvisaciâon musical. Demuestra el calibre de una autora capaz de reinventarse con cada nuevo libro"--Provided by publisher.

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Fatou - ohne Lohn und Respekt als Haushälterin bei den wohlhabenden Derawals in London angestellt - hat schon viele Entbehrungen im Leben ertragen. Aber für eine Sklavin hält sie sich nicht, schließlich darf sie das Haus verlassen. Ihr Weg zum Schwimmbad jeden Montag führt an der Botschaft Kambodschas vorbei, hinter deren Mauern ein scheinbar unendlich andauerndes Federballspiel stattfindet. Das ewige Auf und Ab des Federballs - "Plong, zack" - spiegelt ihre prekäre Realität wieder: Fatou, wie alle Migranten, die am Rande der Gesellschaft leben, ist bloß ein Spielball.

One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2012 Set in northwest London, Zadie Smith's brilliant tragicomic novel follows four localsLeah, Natalie, Felix, and Nathanas they try to make adult lives outside of Caldwell, the council estate of their childhood. In private houses and public parks, at work and at play, these Londoners inhabita 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. Depicting the modern urban zonefamiliar to city-dwellers everywhereNW is a quietly devastating novel of encounters, mercurial and vital, like the city itself.

WINNER OF THE MOST PROMISING PLAYWRIGHT AT THE CRITICS CIRCLE THEATRE AWARDS 2022 ''Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend.She plays many roles round here. And neverScared to tell the whole of her truth, whetherOr not anyone wants to hear it. WifeOf Willesden: pissed enough to tell her lifeStory to whoever has ears and eyes . . .'' Zadie Smith''s first time writing for the stage, The Wife of Willesden is a riotous twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer''s classic The Wife of Bath''s Prologue, brought to glorious life on the Kilburn High Road.Commissioned to celebrate Brent''s year as Borough of Culture 2020, The Wife of Willesden ran at the Kiln Theatre, London from November 2021 to January 2022.

Deana Lawson is one of the most powerful photographers of her generation. Her subject is black expressive culture and her canvas is the African Diaspora. Over the last ten years, she has created a visionary language to describe black identities, through intimate portraiture and striking accounts of ceremonies and rituals.Deana Lawson: An Aperture Monograph features forty beautifully reproduced photographs, an essay by the acclaimed writer Zadie Smith, and an extensive interview with the filmmaker Arthur Jafa.

A far-ranging, invigorating and irrepressible collection of essays on literature, cinema, art - and everything in between - from the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Feel Free and Swing Time'Alarmingly good' Metro'Striding with open hearted zest and eloquence between fiction (from EM Forster to David Foster Wallace) and travel, movies and comedy, family and community in a self-portrait that charts the evolution of a formidable talent' Independent'Supremely good. Smith writes with such infectious zeal and engaging accessibility that it makes you want to turn up at her house and demand tutoring' Dazed'Brilliant' Vogue

From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Swing Time, White Teeth and On Beauty'A pleasure from the first page to the last' Evening Standard'A glorious concoction by our most beguiling and original prose-wizard' Independent on Sunday 'Full of humour, the search for love and the fear of death... A touching, thoughtful, deeply felt rite-of-passage novel' Sunday Telegraph The Autograph Man follows one Alex-Li Tandem: a twenty-something Chinese-Jewish autograph dealer turned on by sex, drugs and organised religion. From London to New York, love to death, fathers to sons, Alex tries to discover how a piece of paper can bring him closer to his heart's desire. Exposing our misconceptions about our idols - about ourselves - Zadie Smith delivers a brilliant, unforgettable tale about who we are and what we really want to be.

From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMENS PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Swing Time, White Teeth and On Beauty - a masterful and intimate novel of modern London life A triumph. Every sentence sings Guardian Intensely funny, richly varied, always unexpected. A joyous, optimistic, angry masterpiece Daily Telegraph Smiths most satisfying novel. Funny, sexy, weird, full of acute social comedy. Shes up there with the best around Evening Standard Zadie Smiths brilliant tragicomic NW follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan - after theyve left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different lives. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their city is brutal, beautiful and complicated. Yet after a chance encounter they each find that the choices theyve made, the people they once were and are now, can suddenly, rapidly unravel. Funny, poignant and vividly contemporary, NW is as brimming with vitality as the city itself.