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Grand Union. Stories

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Grand Union. Stories

Grand Union. Stories

Editorial: Penguin Books S.A

Pàgines: 245

Any: 2019

EAN: 9780241337035

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Sobre el libro Grand Union. Stories de Zadie Smith publicado por Penguin Books S.A al 2019:

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...
Zadie Smith

Sobre Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith (Londres, 1975) va estudiar Filologia Anglesa en la Universitat de Cambridge. Amb Dents blanques (Salamandra, 2001) va guanyar el Premi Whitbread per a Primera Novel·la, el James Tait Black Memorial de Narrativa, i els premis per a Primer Llibre dels Escriptors de la Commonwealth i The Guardian. El caçador d´autògrafs (Salamandra, 2003) va ser guardonada amb el Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize i va ser finalista del Premi Orange, i la seva...

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