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Hustpierpoint, Sussex, 1873. Eliza Touchet è da trent’anni la governante di suo cugino acquisito, William Ainsworth, un romanziere un tempo di grande successo ma ormai caduto in disgrazia e in crisi di ispirazione. Donna spiritualmente e intellettualmente libera, Eliza ha sempre partecipato ai circoli letterari di Ainsworth, crescendo all’ombra del successo di William e dei suoi amici letterati, tra cui il Signor Charles ...

Deux petites filles métisses d'un quartier populaire de Londres se rencontrent lors d'un cours de danse et deviennent amies. Avec le temps, elles se perdent de vue. Tracey, la plus douée et la plus excessive, démarre sa carrière, alors que la narratrice devient l'assistante personnelle d'une célèbre chanteuse. Après une série d'évènements elles se retrouvent pour un dernier pas de danse.

Book of the Year 2023 according to New York Times, New Yorker, Guardian, Economist, Observer, The Spectator, Financial Times, Vogue, The Times, The Oldie, i Paper, The Standard, Washington Post, Independent, Daily ExpressSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS¿ PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024ONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKER¿S BEST BOOKS OF 2023`A writer at the peak of her powers¿ The TelegraphTruth and fiction. Jamaica a...

Die gefeierte Bestsellerautorin Zadie Smith überrascht mit einem literarischen historischen Roman, der sich um einen der bekanntesten Gerichtsfälle Englands dreht: Der Tichborne-Fall, der Arm gegen Reich aufwiegelte. London 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet ist die schottische Haushälterin und angeheiratete Cousine des einstmals erfolgreichen Schriftstellers William Ainsworth. Eliza ist aufgeweckt und kritisch. Sie zweifelt daran, dass Ainsworth Tal...

Zadie Smiths tragikomischer Roman erzählt von vier Londoner:innen - Leah, Natalie, Felix und Nathan -, die zwar den sozialen Wohnungsbau ihrer Kindheit verlassen haben, doch bis zum heutigen Tag im Londoner Nordwesten leben, dem eigentlichen Zentrum der Stadt. Leah, Natalie, Felix und Nathan wachsen in einer Hochhaussiedlung auf, wie es sie in jeder Großstadt gibt - immer das Ziel vor Augen, Caldwell eines Tages zu verlassen und etwas Größe...

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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...

Follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan - after they've 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.

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Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who deserves to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel.Kilburn, 1873. The 'Tichborne Trial' has captivated the widowed Scottish housekeeper Mrs Eliza Touchet and all of England. Readers are at odds over whether the defendant is who he claims to be - or an imposter.Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her novelist cousin and his...

Zadie Smith's first time writing for the stage, a riotous twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic The Wife of Bath"Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend. She plays many roles round here. And never Scared to tell the whole of her truth, whether Or not anyone wants to hear it. Wife Of Willesden: pissed enough to tell her life Story to whoever has ears and eyes . . ." In her stage-writing debut, celebrated novelis...

Der erste Erzählungsband von Zadie Smith vereint neunzehn sehr unterschiedliche Storys, die sich um die Themen drehen, mit denen Zadie Smith zur Ikone der Literatur geworden ist: Frau-Mann, schwarz-weiß, Macht-Ohnmacht - und zunehmend auch Politik und das Älterwerden. Von Leserinnen und Lesern geliebt und von der Kritik hochgeschätzt ist Zadie Smith seit ihrem Debüt »Zähne zeigen« eine der wichtigsten Autorinnen überhaupt. In dieser ersten ...

A tale of standing out, embracing differences, and ultimately belonging-from one of the literary world's foremost minds, Zadie Smith, and novelist and poet, Nick Laird!Meet Maud: a guinea pig who inexplicably wears a judo suit-and not everyone understands or approves. When Maud is thrown into a new and confusing situation, it takes brave decisions and serendipitous encounters for her to find her place and embrace her individuality.Maud is an e...

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Meet Maud: a guinea pig who inexplicably wears a judo suit - and not everyone understands or approves. When Maud is thrown into a new and confusing situation, it takes brave decisions and serendipitous encounters for her to find her place and embrace her individuality.The charming characters of Magenta Fox, whose work is evocative of Raymond Briggs and Janet Ahlberg, perfectly offset Zadie and Nick's warm, wry prose.Weirdo is an endearing stor...

NW. London, nachalo veka. Sredi nestabil'nosti, bednosti i upadka Li, Natali, Feliks i Natan, rodivshiesja v nishhem rajone pod nazvaniem Koldvell, pytajutsja otyskat' svoe mesto v zhizni. Kuda privedet ih bor'ba s samimi soboj i s gorodom, kotoryj sposoben peremolot' dazhe samyh sil'nyh? "Severo-Zapad" - slozhnyj, stilisticheski bezuprechnyj roman Zjedi Smit, odnoj iz vazhnejshih anglijskih pisatel'nic nashego vremeni.

Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend. She plays many roles round here. And never Scared to tell the whole of her truth, whether Or not anyone wants to hear it. Wife Of Willesden: pissed enough to tell her life Story to whoever has ears and eyes...'A riotous dramatisation of Chaucer's celebrated The Wife of Bath's Tale, translated for the modern age. As the crowd in a small pub on the Kilburn High Road stand up to share their stories...

»Zadie Smith eröffnet literarische Räume, in denen wir uns selbst und unsere Welt besser begreifen können« Die Welt. Dieser erste Erzählungsband von Zadie Smith vereint neunzehn auch formal sehr unterschiedliche Storys, die sich um die Themen drehen, mit denen Zadie Smith zur Ikone der Literatur geworden ist: Frau-Mann, schwarz-weiß, Macht-Ohnmacht - und zunehmend auch Politik und das Älterwerden. Von Leserinnen und Lesern geliebt und von der...

Fatou, a migrant from West Africa and domestic servant, has escaped from one set of hardships to another. Lacking any trace of self-pity, Fatou is grateful for the stolen hour a week she swims at the local health centre. Her walk takes her past the Embassy of Cambodia where, intriguingly, there always seems to be a badminton game in progress. The perpetual "pock, smash" of the shuttlecock mirrors the relentless rhythm of conquest and submissio...