Swing Time

 
　　兩個倫敦貧民區長大的混血女孩在參加舞蹈課程時相識，她們都夢想能成為舞者，但其中只有崔西有舞蹈天份，另一位女孩天分不高，但她是個歌唱好手。
 
　　有舞蹈天分的崔西隨後就被一所舞蹈學校錄取，變身天才舞蹈家，另一名女孩則是成為國際流行巨星艾梅的私人助理，而艾梅正試圖在非洲建立一所女子學校……。故事從身為敘述者的女孩眼中看到的世界展開鋪陳，透過她的眼睛，我們看到名人財富如何等於無盡的權力和特權，而非洲的貧窮與倫敦的富有正形成強烈對比。
 
　　舞台背景從北倫敦到西非，充滿活力與人性能量的《Swing Time》是一個關於友情與音樂的故事，以及我們如何在這兩者的形塑下活出自我。（文／博客來編譯）

　　An 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 abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either...

　　Dazzlingly energetic and deeply human, Swing Time is a story about friendship and music and stubborn roots, about how we are shaped by these things and how we can survive them. Moving from North-West London to West Africa, it is an exuberant dance to the music of time.
 

作者簡介

　　Zadie Smith was born in Northwest London in 1975 and still lives in the area. She is the author of White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, Changing My Mind, and NW.