Swing Time

　　LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017
　　2017 博客來外文年度選書

　　在各種身分認同之間，率性搖擺

　　她說了一個讓我們有高度情感共鳴的好聽故事，滋味豐富口感細緻，選材素有口碑且用料非常紮實，然而在故事之內的夾餡，那一層又一層細密紋理間，是犀利的社會觀察和精彩文化評論。她一步步建立起你的每種認同，卻在過程中同時創造出空間，讓你有餘裕問自己：真的嗎？正因如此，文學小說遠遠不僅是一則好故事而已。《白牙》作者精彩力作！

　　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, 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. Moving from North-West London to West Africa, it is an exuberant dance to the music of time.

作者簡介

　　Zadie Smith was born in Northwest London in 1975 and still lives in the area. She is the author of White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, Changing My Mind, and NW.