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DEAD AND ALIVE TPB

Smith, Zadie

Εκδότης Penguin , ISBN 9780241729601

An illuminating new essay collection from one of the most distinctive, exciting and acclaimed writers of her generation, Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith is a wonderful essayist. She is a natural. She writes as she thinks, and she thinks crisply and exactly Tessa Hadley, Guardian

In this keenly awaited new collection, Zadie Smith brings her unique skills as an essayist to bear on a range of subjects which have captured her attention in recent years.

She takes an exhilaratingly close look at artists Toyin Ojih Odutola, Kara Walker and Celia Paul.

She invites us along to the movies, to see and to think about T r, and to Glastonbury to witness the ascendance of Stormzy. She takes us on a walk down Kilburn High Road in her beloved North West London and invites us to mourn with her the passing of writers Joan Didion, Martin Amis, Hilary Mantel, Philip Roth and Toni Morrison. She considers changes of government on both sides of the Atlantic and the meaning of the commons in all our lives.

Throughout this thrilling collection, Zadie Smith shows us once again her unrivalled ability to think through critically and humanely some of the most urgent preoccupations and tendencies of our troubled times.

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An illuminating new essay collection from one of the most distinctive, exciting and acclaimed writers of her generation, Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith is a wonderful essayist. She is a natural. She writes as she thinks, and she thinks crisply and exactly Tessa Hadley, Guardian

In this keenly awaited new collection, Zadie Smith brings her unique skills as an essayist to bear on a range of subjects which have captured her attention in recent years.

She takes an exhilaratingly close look at artists Toyin Ojih Odutola, Kara Walker and Celia Paul.

She invites us along to the movies, to see and to think about T r, and to Glastonbury to witness the ascendance of Stormzy. She takes us on a walk down Kilburn High Road in her beloved North West London and invites us to mourn with her the passing of writers Joan Didion, Martin Amis, Hilary Mantel, Philip Roth and Toni Morrison. She considers changes of government on both sides of the Atlantic and the meaning of the commons in all our lives.

Throughout this thrilling collection, Zadie Smith shows us once again her unrivalled ability to think through critically and humanely some of the most urgent preoccupations and tendencies of our troubled times.

Πληροφορίες προϊόντος

  • Συγγραφέας Smith, Zadie
  • Eκδότης Penguin
  • ISBN 9780241729601
  • Κωδικός Ευριπίδη 040100091519
  • Έτος κυκλοφορίας 2025
  • Σελίδες 464
  • Διαστάσεις
  • Βάρος 350 gr

Smith, Zadie

Συγγραφέας

H Zadie Smith γεννήθηκε το 1975 στο Λονδίνο όπου και ζει μέχρι σήμερα. Σπούδασε αγγλική φιλολογία στο Κέμπριτζ. Το 2003 συμπεριλήφθηκε στη λίστα των 20 καλύτερων νέων συγγραφέων του περίβλεπτου λογοτεχνικού περιοδικού Granta. Το πρώτο της μυθιστόρημα, "Λευκό χαμόγελο σε μαύρο φόντο" τιμήθηκε με τα βραβεία Guardian for first book, Whitbread First Novel, Whitbread Book of the Year, James Tait Black Memorial, British Book Awards Newcomer of the Year, Frankfurt eBook Award και Commonwealth Writer's First Book ενώ και το δεύτερο της βιβλίο, "Συλλέκτης αυτογράφων", δεν πέρασε απαρατήρητο. Τιμήθηκε με το βραβείο Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize for Fiction, ενώ ήταν υποψήφιο για τα βραβεία Orange και Booker. Το "Στην ομορφιά που χάνεται" είναι το αποτέλεσμα των προσπαθειών και της συγγραφικής ωριμότητάς της αφού τιμήθηκε το 2006 με τα βραβεία Orange, Somerset Maugham και Commonwealth Writers' Regional Award ενώ ήταν υποψήφιο για τα βραβεία Booker και IMPAC. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975. She is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty and NW, as well as The Embassy of Cambodia and a collection of essays, Changing My Mind. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. White Teeth won multiple literary awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. On Beautywas shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and NW was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and lives in London and New York with her husband and two children.

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