Zadie Smith
1) The fraud
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"It 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 skeptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully...
2) Swing time
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"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 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,...
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A collection of both previously unpublished works and classic essays includes discussions of recent cultural and political events, social networking, libraries, and the failure to address global warming.
"Since she burst spectacularly into view with her debut novel, White Teeth, almost two decades ago, Zadie Smith has established herself not just as one of the world's preeminent fiction writers, but also as a brilliant and singular essayist. She...
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"Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of reflective essays by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time. Written during the early months of lockdown, Intimations explores ideas and questions prompted by an unprecedented situation. What does it mean to submit to a new reality--or to resist it? How do we compare relative sufferings? What is the relationship between time and work? In our isolation, what...
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"A dazzling collection of short fiction, more than half of which have never been published before, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and Swing Time Zadie Smith has established herself as one of the most iconic, critically-respected, and popular writers of her generation. In her first short story collection, she combines her power of observation and inimitable voice to mine the fraught and complex experience of life in the modern world....
6) White teeth
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A strikingly clever and funny book, filled with a passion for ideas and language.
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Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Natick-Morse Black History Month 2024
SOM Read-Alikes for The Fraud
Women's Prize for Fiction
Natick-Morse Black History Month 2024
SOM Read-Alikes for The Fraud
Women's Prize for Fiction
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Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize for fiction, another bestselling masterwork from the celebrated author of Swing Time and White Teeth
"In this sharp, engaging satire, beauty's only skin-deep, but funny cuts to the bone." —Kirkus Reviews
Having hit bestseller lists from the New York Times to the San Francisco Chronicle, this wise, hilarious novel reminds us why Zadie Smith has rocketed...
"In this sharp, engaging satire, beauty's only skin-deep, but funny cuts to the bone." —Kirkus Reviews
Having hit bestseller lists from the New York Times to the San Francisco Chronicle, this wise, hilarious novel reminds us why Zadie Smith has rocketed...
9) NW
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"Four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix, and Nathan - try to make adult lives outside of Caldwell, the council estate of their childhood. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their London is a complicated place, as beautiful as it is brutal, where the thoroughfares hide the back alleys and taking the high road can sometimes lead you to a dead end."--From publisher's information.
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Swing Time and one of the most revered writers of her generation comes an "intelligent ... exquisitely clever [novel] about fame, mortality, and the triumph of image over reality” (The Boston Globe).
Alex-Li Tandem sells autographs. His business is to hunt for names on paper, collect them, sell them, and occasionally fake them—all to give the people...
Alex-Li Tandem sells autographs. His business is to hunt for names on paper, collect them, sell them, and occasionally fake them—all to give the people...
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2023.
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English
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"In her stage-writing debut, celebrated novelist and essayist Zadie Smith brings to life a comedic and cutting twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic The Wife of Bath. The Wife of Willesden follows Alvita, a Jamaican-born British woman in her mid-50s, as she tells her life story to a band of strangers in a small pub on the Kilburn High Road. Wearing fake gold chains, dressed in knock-off designer clothes, and speaking in a...
12) Swing Time
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D. Quixote
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2017
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Portuguese
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Dança, rivalidade, música e poder ao ritmo do nosso tempo.Duas raparigas mestiças sonham ser dançarinas mas apenas uma, Tracey, tem talento. A outra tem ideias: sobre ritmo e tempo, sobre corpos negros e música negra, sobre o que constitui uma tribo ou torna uma pessoa verdadeiramente livre. É uma amizade de infância, forte mas complicada, que termina abruptamente aos vinte e poucos anos, para nunca mais ser revisitada, mas também nunca...
13) Grand Union
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Editions Gallimard
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2021
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Français
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Dans ce premier recueil de nouvelles, Zadie Smith allie son inimitable pouvoir d'observation et sa voix unique pour explorer les arcanes du monde moderne. Entrelaçant les thèmes, les registres et les points de vue, elle nous invite à la rencontre d'un cortège de personnages : un homme dont c'est le dernier jour sur terre, une quadragénaire revivant par la pensée ses années d'université et s'interrogeant sur la versatilité du désir, un groupe...
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In this 1983 short story about race and the relationships that shape us through life, Twyla and Roberta, friends since childhood who are seemingly at opposite ends of every problem as they grow older, cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them.
Twyla and Roberta have known each other since they were eight years old, roommates in the St. Bonaventure shelter. After losing touch, they meet several times by accident. Seemingly...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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2019.
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English
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A collection of essays that blend the personal and the social, from the celebrated literary critic and novelist
In these twenty-five essays, Darryl Pinckney has given us a view of our recent racial history that blends the social and the personal and wonders how we arrived at our current moment. Pinckney reminds us that "white supremacy isn't back; it never went away." It is this impulse to see historically that is at the core of Busted
16) The surprise
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Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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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"--
17) Meet the rebels
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DK Publishing
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2014.
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English
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Introduces some of the characters from the series "Star Wars Rebels," a television show, set between Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. It follows the former Jedi Kanan Jarrus and his ragtag crew aboard the starship Ghost as they struggle against the evil rule of the Galactic Empire.
19) O krasote
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Izdatelʹstvo "Ė"
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2018.
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Russian
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Struggling with a stale marriage and the misguided passions of his three adult children, art professor Howard Belsey finds his family life thrown into turmoil by his son's engagement to the socially prominent daughter of a right-wing icon.
20) Severo-Zapad
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Ėksmo
Pub. Date
2020.
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Russian
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"London, nachalo veka. Sredi nestabilʹnosti, bednosti i upadka Li, Natali, Feliks i Natan, rodivshiesi︠a︡ v nishchem raĭone pod nazvaniem Koldvell, pytai︠u︡tsi︠a︡ otyskatʹ svoe mesto v zhizni. Kuda privedet ikh borʹba s samimi soboĭ i s gorodom, kotoryĭ sposoben peremolotʹ dazhe samykh silʹnykh?"--
This is the story of a city - the north-west corner of a city. Following four Londoners as they try to make adult lives outside of...
