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Summary: The eponymous Autograph Man is Alex Li-Tandem, an Anglo-Chinese Jew obsessed with the "Jewish/Goyish" dichotomy he sees everywhere around him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2003
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Summary: "It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper-and cousin by marriage-of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Smith 2016Smith, Zadie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2005
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Summary: "On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his Cavalier Musketeer station wagon. Archie-working-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his belt-is calling it quits, the deciding factor being the flip of a 20-pence coin. When the owner of a nearby halal butcher shop (annoyed that Archie's car is blocking his delivery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 2001
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Summary: From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who deserves to tell their story--and who deserves to be believed It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper--and cousin by marriage--of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "Zadie 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 and her inimitable voice to mine the fraught and complex experience of life in the modern world. Interleaving eleven completely new and unpublished stories with some of her best-loved pieces from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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Summary: Describes the lives of four northwest Londoners trying to make adult lives outside of Caldwell, the council estate of their childhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012