Zadie Smith

Un relato fresco y divertido de la Inglaterra moderna a traves de la historia ferozmente ingeniosa de los inmigrantes en Inglaterra durante un período de cuarenta años. Situado en un barrio londinense de inmigrantes, el inmenso fresco humano que dibuja la autora tiene como epicentro las familias de Archie Jones y Samad Iqbal, dos ex combatientes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial que vuelven a encontrarse despues de treinta años sin verse. Archie esta casado con una jamaicana exuberante y Samad con Alsana, bengali como el, y con las ideas muy claras. Pero lo mas preocupante no es estar casados con mujeres jovenes de caracter endemoniado, ni la falta de dinero, ni las secuelas de la guerra; no, la prueba mas dura es la relacion con sus hijos, que a la hora de llevar a cabo los proyectos fracasados de sus padres se rebelan: se rebelan contra el racismo britanico, contra su propia clase social, incluso contra su barrio, sus origenes, y suhistoria. Asi, cada uno a su manera, son la prueba viviente de lo dificil que resulta escapar de un destino trazado de antemano. Sin duda uno de los autores jovenes mas destacados de la literatura anglosajona de los ultimos años, la britanica Zadie Smith asombro a la critica y al publico lector cuando, con apenas veintidos años

Una breve y oportuna colección de ensayos profundamente personales y conmovedores sobre la experiencia del confinamiento escritos por una de las plumas más lúcidas de nuestro tiempo.«Se escribirán mu

Un libro cargado de agudeza, frescura y empatía que nos ilumina en un mundo cada vez más cambiante y contradictorio.Zadie Smith ha demostrado ser una ensayista brillante y singular, haciendo que cada texto suyo sea un acontecimiento literario por derecho propio. Con total libertad, que recopila algunos de los mas celebrados, abarca el amplisimo rango de intereses de Smith: desde todas las facetas de la cultura y la libertad artistica hasta los temas mas acuciantes de la politica y la actualidad, siempre desde una perspectiva original y radicalmente personal. Gracias a su fina agudeza, una frescura contagiosa y una empatia extraordinaria, este libro es una guia imprescindible para entender un mundo, el nuestro, cada vez mas complejo y contradictorio.La critica ha dicho... Eclectica en sus gustos y centrifuga en su estilo, Zadie Smith disfruta, como articulista, de ampliar los limites de su pensamiento [...] En la linea de Hazlitt y Orwell, Woolf y Angela Carter.The Financial TimesInteresante, sagaz [...] ¿Se debe leer este libro brillante? ¡Por supuesto que si!The IndependentUn libro inteligente, ingenioso y a menudo hilarante que demuestra que [Zadie Smith] es una de las mentes mas brillantes de la literatura britanica de hoy en dia.NPREs un placer exquisito observar a Zadie Smith pensar a lo largo de estas paginas.The New York Times Book ReviewSmith lleva a la escriturade articulos sus dotes como novelista: buen ojo para el detalle, sutiles giros en las frases.The Boston GlobeEstos ensayos en su conjunto reflejan una mente abierta, vivaz, natural, rigurosa, erudita y seria, ocupada en perfeccionar su manera de ver la vida, la literatura y la relacion entre ambas. Smith demuestra que es mucho mas que una cabeza adulta y comprensiva sobre unos hombros muy jovenes.Y lo demuestra con su apasionada, compulsivamente dialectica y atractiva indagacion de la literatura.Los Angeles TimesNo importa sobre lo que escriba -su padre, Kafka, Liberia, George Clooney-: colocar cualquier tema dentro del campo magnetico de su cerebro incansable basta para volverlo fascinante. Smith tiene el don de mostrarnoscomo lee y piensa; al ver como lo hace, uno se siente a su vez mas inteligente y observador por osmosis.Time

Leah, Nathalie, Félix et Nathan ont grandi dans la cité de Caldwell, au nord-ouest de Londres. Ils se sont connus, aimés, ou juste frôlés, puis ils ont pris leur envol. Mais à l'approche de la qu

In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London lives the last day of his life, unknowingly caught in someone else's story of hate and division, resistance and revolt.A mother looks back on her early forays into matters of the human heart - and other parts of the human body - considering the ways in which desire is always an act of negotiation, destruction, and self-invention.A disgraced cop stands amid the broken shards of his life, unable to move forward into a future that holds no place for him.Moral panic spreads like contagion through the upper echelons of New York City - and the cancelled people look disconcertingly like the rest of us.A teenage scion of the technocratic elite chases spectres through a premium virtual reality, trailed by a little girl with a runny nose and no surviving family.We all take a much-needed break from this mess, on a package holiday where the pool's electric blue is ceaselessly replenished, while political and environmental collapse happen far away, to someone else.Interleaving ten completely new and unpublished stories with some of her best-loved pieces from the New Yorker and elsewhere, Zadie Smith presents a dizzyingly rich and varied collection of fiction. Moving exhilaratingly across genres and perspectives, from the historic to the vividly current to the slyly dystopian, Grand Union is a sharply alert and prescient collection about time and place, identity and rebirth, the persistent legacies that haunt our present selves and the uncanny futures that rush up to meet us.

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. Praise for Zadie Smith: 'Smith is the most naturally gifted young novelist around - with a fastidious ear for dialogue and a lethally quiet comic touch. Above all, she can move us' Times Literary Supplement '[Smith] packs more intelligence, humour and sheer energy into any given scene than anyone else of her generation' Sunday Telegraph 'Her dialogue sings and soars; terse, packed and sassy. Smith is simply wonderful: Dickens's legitimate daughter' Independent on NW 'Captivating. Funny, sexy, weird, full of acute social comedy. [Zadie Smith] is up there with the best around' Evening Standard on NW 'Intensely funny, richly varied, always unexpected. A joyous, optimistic, angry masterpiece. No better English novel will be published this year' Daily Telegraph on NW 'Exceptionally accomplished...Smith displays a remarkable talent for embracing all the possibilities of language, and time and again she produces images that shout out in their brilliance...An outstanding novelist' Observer on On Beauty 'Like Forster, Smith possesses a captivating authorial voice - at once authoritative and nonchalant, and capacious enough to accommodate high moral seriousness, laid-back humour and virtually everything in-between' New York Times on On Beaut

Dans un quartier populaire de Londres, deux petites filles métisses nouent une relation fusionnelle autour d’un même rêve : devenir danseuses. Mais seule Tracey, la plus effrontée, a du talent. L’aut

Revisiting the terrain of her acclaimed novel NW, The Embassy of Cambodia is another remarkable work of fiction from Zadie Smith.'The fact is, if we followed the history of every little country in the world -- in its dramatic as well as its quiet times -- we would have no space left in which to live our own lives or apply ourselves to our necessary tasks, never mind indulge in occasional pleasures, like swimming . . . 'First published in the New Yorker, The Embassy of Cambodia is a rare and brilliant story that takes us deep into the life of a young woman, Fatou, domestic servant to the Derawals and escapee from one set of hardships to another.Beginning and ending outside the Embassy of Cambodia, which happens to be located in Willesden, north-west London, Zadie Smith's absorbing, moving and wryly observed story suggests how the apparently small things in an ordinary life always raise larger, more extraordinary questions.

The Book of Other People is about character. Twenty-five or so outstanding writers have been asked by Zadie Smith to make up a fictional character. By any measure, creating character is at the heart of the fictional enterprise, and this book concentrates on writers who share a talent for making something recognizably human out of words (and, in the case of the graphic novelists, pictures). But the purpose of the book is variety: straight "realism"—if such a thing exists—is not the point. There are as many ways to create character as there are writers, and this anthology features a rich assortment of exceptional examples.

Premio Novela Europea Casino de Santiago 2007 Situada en ambas as beiras do Atlántico, nos EUA e en Inglaterra, a terceira novela de Zadie Smith (Londres, 1975) é unha brillante e divertida ollada á vida dunha familia, á parella, ao vencello entre vida persoal e política. Unha honesta e fonda pescuda na desilusión da xente e nas súas consecuencias para a sociedade. Da beleza conta a historia dos Belsey, un profesor inglés casado cunha afroamericana, e os seus tres fillos. A historia dos seus ideais, da súa busca do amor e máis do seu compromiso con eles mesmos e cos demais.

"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 open his net curtains to reveal the irrepressible Magda Mandela (at 4:30a.m., in her lime-green thong); Jonathan Safran Foer's Grandmother offers cookies to sweeten the tale of her heart scan; and Dave Eggers, George Saunders, David Mitchell, Colm Toibin, A.M. Homes, Chris Ware and many more each have someone to introduce to you, too. With an introduction by Zadie Smith and brand-new stories from over twenty of the best writers of their generation from both sides of the Atlantic, "The Book of Other People" is as dazzling and inventive as its authors, and as vivid and wide-ranging as its characters.

Invéntate un personaje. No importan el color, el sexo o la religión, ni tampoco la especie. Con esta única directriz, Zadie Smith invitó a los mejores escritores anglosajones de su generación a crear un relato para una antologia. El resultado es El libro de los otros, veintiuna historias asombrosas que suponen una excelente introduccion a la obra de un selecto grupo de autores de gran talento, provenientes de ambos lados del Atlantico, entre los que se encuentra la propia Zadie Smith.Los protagonistas de cada relato son, en su mayoria, humanos, pero tambien hay un monstruo con una crisis de identidad, un gigante que sufre por amor y un cachorro en busca de un hogar. Veintiuna voces que, como ocurre siempre en la buena literatura, no solo hablan de si mismas, sino de todos nosotros.Autores de los relatos:Edwige Danticat, Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer, Andrew Sean Greer, Aleksandar Hemon, A.M. Homes, Nick Hornby (con ilustraciones de Posy Simmonds), Heidi Julavits, Miranda July, A.L. Kennedy, Hari Kunzru, Jonathan Lethem, Toby Litt, David Mitchell, Andrew OHagan, ZZ Packer, George Saunders, Zadie Smith, Adam Thirlwell, Colm Toibin, Vendela Vida

Premio Orange 2006.

L'anterior novel·la de Zadie Smith, Dents blanques, va convulsionar el panorama de les lletres europees, per la força del llibre i la joventut de la seva autora. Els lectors catalans no van ser aliens a l'interès suscitat pel llibre arreu on s'ha traduït. Després de Dents blanques, la nova novel·la de Zadie Smith se centra en el tema de la fama i dels autògrafs. Alex-Ti Tandem és col·leccionador i, també, venedor d'autògrafs. Un bocí de paper amb una signatura al damunt pot arribar a ser un objecte molt cobdiciat. A través d'un autògraf, Alex dóna a la gent el que busca: un trosset de fama. Però, i què és el que desitja Alex? Simplement el retorn del seu pare, la fi de la religió, alguna cosa per al seu maldecap, tres noies diferents, la gràcia infinita i un autògraf molt i molt rar, el d'una actriu del cinema mut. L'home dels autògrafs és una reflexió sobre el cinema, la celebritat i el valor dels símbols per sobre de l'experiència. Tot abordat des d'un punt de vista molt particular, amb una generosa càrrega d'humor.

Alex-Li Tandem ha sempre avuto la passione degli autografi, li colleziona, li vende, li falsifica. Vorrebbe anche che fossero abolite le religioni, avere tre ragazze diverse, e vorrebbe il rarissimo autografo di una dimenticata attrice del muto. Tutto il contrario di quel che vogliono (e vorrebbero per lui) i suoi amici, un rabbino impiccione e un nero ebreo osservante, cresciuti con Alex in un sobborgo di Londra. Catapultato a New York sulle tracce dell'autografo tanto desiderato, Alex si troverà risucchiato in un viaggio picaresco intorno al "vuoto" della modernità. Dopo "Denti bianchi", la giovane autrice anglo-giamaicana Zadie Smith firma un romanzo ricco di humour.

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. Praise for Zadie Smith: 'Smith is the most naturally gifted young novelist around - with a fastidious ear for dialogue and a lethally quiet comic touch. Above all, she can move us' Times Literary Supplement '[Smith] packs more intelligence, humour and sheer energy into any given scene than anyone else of her generation' Sunday Telegraph 'Her dialogue sings and soars; terse, packed and sassy. Smith is simply wonderful: Dickens's legitimate daughter' Independent on NW 'Captivating. Funny, sexy, weird, full of acute social comedy. [Zadie Smith] is up there with the best around' Evening Standard on NW 'Intensely funny, richly varied, always unexpected. A joyous, optimistic, angry masterpiece. No better English novel will be published this year' Daily Telegraph on NW 'Exceptionally accomplished...Smith displays a remarkable talent for embracing all the possibilities of language, and time and again she produces images that shout out in their brilliance...An outstanding novelist' Observer on On Beauty 'Like Forster, Smith possesses a captivating authorial voice - at once authoritative and nonchalant, and capacious enough to accommodate high moral seriousness, laid-back humour and virtually everything in-between' New York Times on On Beauty