Two dancers with different approaches to their craft share a complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, in a story that transitions from northwest London to West Africa.
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 ...
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 ...
Swing Time
How do we become who we are ? Can we ever truly escape our origins ? Must we dance to the music of our time ? Set in London, New York and West Africa, Swing Time is about two brown girls from Willesden who dream of being dancers.
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017 'Smith's finest.
A New York Times bestseller Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize for Fiction 2017 Man Booker Prize Longlist An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from northwest London to ...
Säkenöivä ja syvästi inhimillinen Swing Time on romaani ystävyyden voimasta, musiikista yli rajojen ja sitkeistä juurista, jotka ankkuroivat ihmisen aikaansa ja omaan itseensä.
Swing time
The first major assessment of the work of "American Scene" artist Reginald Marsh (1898–1954) in thirty years, covering his art and photography.