Swing Time: A Novel

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Swing Time: A Novel

An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North-West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty

Two brown girls dream of being dancersâ€”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. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either.

Tracey makes it to the chorus line but struggles with adult life, while her friend leaves the old neighborhood behind, traveling the world as an assistant to a famous singer, Aimee, observing close up how the one percent live.

But when Aimee develops grand philanthropic ambitions, the story moves from London to West Africa, where diaspora tourists travel back in time to find their roots, young men risk their lives to escape into a different future, the women dance just like Traceyâ€”the same twists, the same shakesâ€”and the origins of a profound inequality are not a matter of distant history, but a present dance to the music of time.

From the Hardcover edition.

Country	USA
Author	Zadie Smith
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Reprint
EISBN	9780399564314
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Penguin Books
Manufacturer	Penguin Books
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	461
PublicationDate	2016-11-15
Publisher	Penguin Books
ReleaseDate	2016-11-15
Studio	Penguin Books

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