In the summer of 1959, An antiguan immigrant in North West London lives The last day of his life. A mother looks back on her early forays into matters of the human heart, 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. A teenage scion of the technocratic elite chases spectres through a premium virtual reality, trail 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 Interleaving ten completely new and unpublished stories with some of her best-loved pieces from the New Yorker and elsewhere, Zadie Smith presents a sharply alert and slyly prescient collection about time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.
The Accidental Tourist
Anne Tyler
Vintage Books/Penguin Random House Group
The Inner Life Of Martin Frost
Paul Auster
Faber & Faber/Penguin Random House Group
The Mountains Sing
Nguyen Phan Que Mai
Harper Collins Publishers Limited
Alone With You In The Ether A Love Story
Olivie Blake
Tor Books/Pan Macmillan Publishers Limited
Wrecked
Lauren Asher
Simon & Schuster Inc.
Sputnik Sweetheart
Haruki Murakami
Penguin Random House Group
Girl In Pieces
Kathleen Glasgow
Oneworld Publications/Harper Collins Publishers Limited
Bewilderment Shortlisted For The Booker Prize 2021
Richard Powers
The Story Of The Lost Child
Elena Ferrante
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
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