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Grand Union

byZadie Smith

Genres: Humor Fiction Quirky Small-Town Tales Life-Rediscovery Journeys Everyday Heroism

Who is this book for? Readers who appreciate contemporary short stories with rich character development and social themes.

Topics IdentityRebirthSurvivalFriendship

MoodHopeful, Reflective

Female protagonist

HumorOccasional Humor

RomanceMinor Subplot

Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2020 The 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 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. Interleaving eleven completely new and unpublished stories with some of her best-loved pieces from the New Yorker and elsewhere, Zadie Smith presents a dizzyingly rich and varied collection of fiction. Moving exhilaratingly across genres and perspectives, from the historic to the vividly current to the slyly dystopian, Grand Union is a sharply alert and prescient collection about time and place, identity and rebirth, the persistent legacies that haunt our present selves and the uncanny futures that rush up to meet us.

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Published on

29/09/2020

Pages

245

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780241983126

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