Bøker av 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

Kilburn, London 1873: Hele England har blikket festet på Tichborne-saken, der en mann står tiltalt for bedrag, etter å ha dukket opp fra ingenting og hevdet at han er Roger Tichborne, arving til en formue og antatt omkommet i et forlis 12 år tidligere.Eliza Touchet er brennende engasjert i saken og svært opptatt litteratur, klassekamp og kvinners frigjøring. Som enke er hun likevel avspist med rollen som husholderske for sin manns fetter William, en nokså middelmådig romanforfatter som holder middagsselskaper for både Dickens og andre store, tenkende og skrivende menn.Andrew Bogle er forsvarets hovedvitne i Tichborne-rettssaken. Han ble født i fangenskap som slave på en britisk plantasje på Jamaica, og insisterer på at tiltalte snakker sant. Samtidig målbærer hans fortelling tanken om at noen mennesker kan vokse opp med en slags grunnide om at livet er et sted der alle fører alle bak lyset.Bedrag er en storslått og morsom, vakker og nådeløs roman basert på virkelige hendelser, der hykleri og bedrag, klasse og politikk også ligger i potten når sannheten skal frem.]]>

Møt familien Jones, Iqbal og Chalfen. De er alle engelske på et eller annet vis og involvert i hverandres liv på alle tenkelige måter, personlig, politisk, historisk, genetisk. De møter med forskjellige hudfarge, forskjellig religion og har sine røtter på ulike sider av kolonitidens skillevegger. Tre familiefedre står i fokus: Den engelske antihelten og eksterrengsyklisten Archibald Jones, inderen og restaurantsliteren Samad Iqbal og filantropen og genteknologen Marcus Chalfen. Når deres veier krysser hverandre, og deres sønner og døtre kysser hverandre, aktiviseres rasemotsetninger, klasseforskjeller og religiøse konflikter. Hver på sin måte bryter den unge generasjonen med alt deres foreldre har basert sin eksistens på, og det hele kuliminerer nyttårsaften 1992 i en situasjon der genteknologi står mot ekstreme dyreverngrupper. Vil dette føre til verdens undergang, slik Clara Jones gamle mor og hennes venner i Jehovas vitner forventer?

To jenter i en fattig London-forstad drømmer om å bli dansere, men bare én, Tracey, har talent. Den andre sluker gamle dansefilmer og fylles av ideer: om rytme og tid, om svarte kropper og svart musikk, om hva som kjennetegner en stamme, eller gjør et menneske fritt. Det er et tett, men komplisert vennskap som brått tar slutt i begynnelsen av tjueårene. Vennskapet gjenoppstår aldri, men det blir heller ikke helt glemt. Swing Time er en innsiktsfylt, fengende og vittig roman som strutter av energi, rytme og bevegelse. Det er en historie om musikk og identitet, rase og klasse, om de som leder dansen og de som bare følger etter.

Leah, Nathan, Felix og Keisha vokste opp i Londons nordvestre del, i et av Englands altfor mange nedslitte kommunale boligområder. For ungdom derfra var det bare én ting som gjaldt hvis du ville opp og fram i verden, og det var å komme seg bort. Er det mulig å foreta en klassereise og likevel bevare sin identitet? Hva er egentlig røtter, og er de noe som binder eller noe som frigjør? I "NW" gransker Zadie Smith disse spørsmålene. Hun gir oss et unikt klasse- og tidsbilde fra Londons North West og skildrer bydelen som en flytende strøm, noe som alltid er i bevegelse, og der den som strever med å finne fotfeste, fort kan drukne.

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.