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Informationen zum Autor Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth! The Autograph Man! On Beauty! NW and Swing Time! as well as a novella! The Embassy of Cambodia! and a collection of essays! Changing My Mind! and editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002! and was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. White Teeth won multiple awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize! the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. On Beauty was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction! and NW was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Klappentext 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. Tracey makes it to the chorus line but struggles with adult life! while her friend leaves the old neighbourhood far behind! travelling the world as PA to famous singer! Aimee! observing close up how the one per cent 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 Tracey - the same twists! the same shakes - and the origins of a profound inequality are not a matter of distant history! but a present dance to the music of time.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. Tracey makes it to the chorus line but struggles with adult life! while her friend leaves the old neighbourhood far behind! travelling the world as PA to famous singer! Aimee! observing close up how the one per cent 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 Tracey - the same twists! the same shakes - and the origins of a profound inequality are not a matter of distant history! but a present dance to the music of time. ...
