Zadie Smith (31 kníh)
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Zadie Smith Bílé zuby CZVynikající, příjemně neotřelý a optimistický román, zasluhující veškerou pozornost, které se mu dostává… román, hemžící se postavami, jejich spletitými osudy a vzájemně neslučitelnými vírami, kniha se zmocňuje pestré multikulturní krajiny Londýna.
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Zadie Smith Book of Other People ENThe 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…
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Zadie Smith Changing My Mind ENHow did George Eliot's love life affect her prose? Why did Kafka write at three in the morning? In what ways is Barack Obama like Eliza Doolittle? Can you be over-dressed for the Oscars? What is Italian Feminism? If Roland Barthes killed the Author, can Nabokov revive him? What does 'soulful' mean? Is Date Movie the worst film ever made? A collection of essays that brims over with personality and warmth, Changing My…
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Zadie Smith Changing My Mind EN'Changing My Mind' finds Zadie Smith casting an acute eye over material both personal & cultural. This engaging collection of essays, some published here for the first time, reveals Smith as a passionate & precise essayist, equally at home in the world of great books & bad movies, family & philosophy, British comedians & Italian divas.
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Zadie Smith Feel FreeThe one and only Zadie Smith, prize-winning, bestselling author of Swing Time and White Teeth, is back with a second unmissable collection of essays. No subject is too fringe or too mainstream for the unstoppable Zadie Smith. From social media to the environment, from Jay-Z to Karl Ove Knausgaard, she has boundless curiosity and the boundless wit to match. In Feel Free, pop culture, high culture, social change and…
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Zadie Smith Feel FreeNo subject is too fringe or too mainstream for Zadie Smith's insatiable curiosity. From social media to the environment, from Jay-Z to Karl Ove Knausgaard, she has endless enthusiasmand the boundless wit, insight and wisdom to match...
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Zadie Smith Grand UnionZadie Smith has established herself as one of the most iconic, critically-respected, and popular writers of her generation. In her first short story collection, she combines her power of observation ...
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Zadie Smith Grand UnionThe first ever collection of stories from the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Swing Time and White Teeth. In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London lives the last day of his life, unknowingly caught in...
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Zadie Smith Kambodžská ambasádaPoviedka Zadie Smith nám predstavuje príbeh mladej ženy Fatou, ktorá pracuje ako domáca v rodine Derawalovcov a jej život je únikom z jedného otroctva do druhého. Príbeh Fatou sa začína aj končí pred Kambodžskou ambasádou, ktorá sa objavila vo Willesdene v severozápadnom Londýne. Poviedka Zadie Smith čitateľa zasiahne, fascinuje a ukáže mu, ako maličkosti bežného života vedú k výnimočným otázkam.
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Nicholas Cullinan, Margo Jefferson, Zadie Smith Michael JacksonMichael Jackson, one of the most successful recording artists of all time, also has the distinction of being the most depicted cultural figure; an inspiration for an extraordinary array of leading artists – from Andy Warhol and ...
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Zadie Smith NW ENThis is the story of a city. The north-west corner of a city. Here you'll find guests and hosts, those with power and those without it, people who live somewhere special and others who live nowhere at all. And many people in between. Every city is like this. Cheek-by-jowl living. Separate worlds. And then there are the visitations: the rare times a stranger crosses a threshold without permission or warning, causing…
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Zadie Smith NW ENZadie Smith's brilliant tragi-comic NW follows four Londomers - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan - after they're left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different lives. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their city is brutal, beautiful and complicated. Yet after a chance encounter they each find that the choices they've made, the people they once were and are now, can…
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Zadie Smith NWZadie Smith si aj tentokrát všíma multikultúrne prostredie, stret aj súžitie rozdielnych svetov na jednej malej ploche. Ani tu to však nestojí v centre pozornosti; je to koláž, z ktorej vylieza celistvý obrázok. A je to obrázok – ako inak – vskutku tragikomický. Londýn, v ktorom nezazriete Buckinghamský palác či Tower Bridge. Zato v ňom počuť Amy Winehouse a vo vzduchu cítiť trávu. Zadie Smith znovu výborne! …
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Zadie Smith O kráse CZHoward Belsey je Angličan trvale žijící v USA a vyučuje teorii umění na vysoké škole ve Wellingtonu, univerzitním městečku v Nové Anglii. Ženil se mladý a nyní, po třiceti letech, se snaží oživit lásku ke své afroamerické manželce Kiki. V mezičase se jejich tři dospívající děti – Jerome, Zora a Levi – vyrovnávají se svým smíšeným původem a hledají si, každý svým způsobem, vlastní ideály. Po Howardově skandálním…
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Zadie Smith On Beauty ENSet in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the confusions - both personal and political - of our uncertain age are about to be brought close to home: right to the heart of…
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Zadie Smith Severozápad CZToto je příběh moderního města… Nový román Zadie Smithové sleduje osudy čtyř Londýňanů – Ley, Natalie, Felixe a Nathana –, kteří by si v dospělosti rádi vybudovali novou existenci mimo Caldwell, chudinské sídliště jejich dětství. V soukromých domech i ve veřejných parcích, v práci i při zábavě se jejich Londýn jeví jako složitý organismus, jako krásné i nelítostné místo k životu. Frekventované křižovatky však…
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Zadie Smith Swing Time ENAn 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…
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Zadie Smith Swing Time ENTwo brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, black bodies and black music, what it means to belong, what it means to be 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. Bursting with energy, rhythm and movement, Swing Time is Zadie Smith…
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Zadie Smith Swing TimeRomán nominovaný na cenu Man Booker Prize Zadie Smith, jedna z najtalentovanejších súčasných spisovateliek, autorka románov Biele zuby či O kráse, napísala veľký spoločenský román pôvabne plynúci v rytme swingu. Ako sa stávame tým...
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