Author: zadiesmith

A “mesmerizing” New York Times bestseller (Chicago Tribune) with over 7,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads: Two best friends dream of becoming dancers — but their lives and careers will soon diverge. “A multilayered tour de force… Smith burnishes her place in the literary firmament” (Los Angeles Times).

“A splendid treat” (Chicago Tribune): This epic, sprawling New York Times bestseller follows a professor’s family in New England as they navigate conflicts, joys, and culture clashes. “Accomplished, substantive, and penetrating” (Los Angeles Times Book Review).

Zadie Smith’s dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis. But the truth is that Zadie Smith’s voice is remarkably, fluently, and altogether wonderfully her own.At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War … veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of England’s irrevocable transformation. A second marriage to Clara Bowden, a beautiful, albeit tooth-challenged, Jamaican half his age, quite literally gives Archie a second lease…