Informationen zum Autor Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth , The Autograph Man , On Beauty , NW, Swing Time and The Fraud ; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia ; four collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free , Intimations and Dead and Alive ; a collection of short stories, Grand Union ; and the play, The Wife of Willesden , adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People . Zadie Smith was born in north-west London, where she still lives. Klappentext One of the most talked about and critically acclaimed literary debuts of recent years, which went straight into the "Sunday Times" top ten, and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Over 20,000 copies sold in Hamish Hamilton hardcover, and many more to come in this format, helped by a national press advertising campaign. Zusammenfassung Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of coming back and biting you on the ankle, this book is written with a passion for ideas, for language and for the rich tragic-comedy of life.

Autorentext
Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW, Swing Time and The Fraud; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia; four collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free, Intimations and Dead and Alive; a collection of short stories, Grand Union; and the play, The Wife of Willesden, adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London, where she still lives.

Klappentext

One of the most talked about and critically acclaimed literary debuts of recent years, which went straight into the "Sunday Times" top ten, and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Over 20,000 copies sold in Hamish Hamilton hardcover, and many more to come in this format, helped by a national press advertising campaign.

Zusammenfassung
Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of coming back and biting you on the ankle, this book is written with a passion for ideas, for language and for the rich tragic-comedy of life.