{"product_id":"swing-time-1","title":"Swing TIme","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn 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 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. It's 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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMoving from north-west London to West Africa, it is an exuberant dance to the music of time. Praise for Zadie Smith: 'Smith is the most naturally gifted young novelist around - with a fastidious ear for dialogue and a lethally quiet comic touch. Above all, she can move us' Times Literary Supplement '[Smith] packs more intelligence, humour and sheer energy into any given scene than anyone else of her generation' Sunday Telegraph 'Her dialogue sings and soars; terse, packed and sassy.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1rem; color: #1f2124; font-family: -apple-system,'system-ui','San Francisco','Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003ePublished: UK, 2016\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd\u003cbr\u003eLanguages: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 416\u003cbr\u003eISBN 13: 9780241144152\u003cbr\u003eISBN 10: 0241144159\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zadie Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44710610993418,"sku":"","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9780241144152.jpg?v=1694261737","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/swing-time-1","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}