Autor Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith sa stala jednou z najikonickejších, kritikmi najuznávanejších a najpopulárnejších spisovateliek svojej generácie. Vo svojej prvej zbierke poviedok spája svoj pozorovací talent a nenapodobiteľný hlas, aby vyťažila z krehkej a zložitej skúsenosti…

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…

Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel.It is 1873. Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper - and cousin by marriage - of a once famous novelist, now in decline,…

"The Book of Other People" is just that: a book of other people. Open its covers and you'll make a whole host of new acquaintances. Nick Hornby and Posy Simmonds present the ever-diverging writing life of Jamie Johnson; Hari Kunzru twitches…

'Changing My Mind' finds Zadie Smith casting an acute eye over material both personal & cultural. This engaging collection of essays, some published here for the first time, reveals Smith as a passionate & precise essayist, equally at home in…

This is the story of a city. The north-west corner of a city. Here you'll find guests and hosts, those with power and those without it, people who live somewhere special and others who live nowhere at all. And many people in between. Every city is like…

The one and only Zadie Smith, prize-winning, bestselling author of Swing Time and White Teeth, is back with a second unmissable collection of essaysNo subject is too fringe or too mainstream for the unstoppable Zadie Smith. From social media to the environment,…

The first ever collection of stories from the bestselling and beloved author of Swing Time and White Teeth 'She's already one of our best novelists and essayists, this reminds us that her short stories are right up there too' Observer 'Sexy and hilarious.…

'As well as offering a new guide to living in a wild, messy and unfair world, Smith provides a reminder that we can use this crisis to imagine a better one' Evening Standard Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on…

'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…

Zadie Smith si aj tentokrát všíma multikultúrne prostredie, stret aj súžitie rozdielnych svetov na jednej malej ploche. Ani tu to však nestojí v centre pozornosti; je to koláž, z ktorej vylieza celistvý obrázok. A je to obrázok – ako inak – vskutku tragikomický.…

Howard Belsey je Angličan trvale žijící v USA a vyučuje teorii umění na vysoké škole ve Wellingtonu, univerzitním městečku v Nové Anglii. Ženil se mladý a nyní, po třiceti letech, se snaží oživit lásku ke své afroamerické manželce Kiki. V mezičase se…

Toto je příběh města. Severozápadního cípu města, který je malým babylonem. Všechny odstíny pleti, veškerá možná vyznání. Divoké ulice, v nichž žijí vlivní a mocní i ti, kdo takové výsady postrádají. Lidé, kteří mají bydlení, děti a práci – i jedinci,…

Book of the Year 2016: 'Brilliant' Guardian 'Superb' Financial Times 'Virtuosic and breathtaking' Times Literary Supplement 'There is still no better chronicler of the modern British family than Zadie Smith' Telegraph SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK…

Román nominovaný na cenu Man Booker Prize Zadie Smith, jedna z najtalentovanejších súčasných spisovateliek, autorka románov Biele zuby či O kráse, napísala veľký spoločenský román pôvabne plynúci v rytme swingu. Ako sa stávame tým, kým sme? Naozaj dokážeme…

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…