✍ Scribed by Zadie Smith
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A New York Times bestseller * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction * Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
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 dancersbut 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.
Tracey makes it to the chorus line but struggles with adult life, while her friend leaves the old neighborhood behind, traveling the world as an assistant to a famous singer, Aimee, observing close up how the one percent live.
But when Aimee develops grand philanthropic ambitions, the story moves from London to West Africa, where diaspora tourists travel back in time to find their roots, young men risk their lives to escape into a different future, the women dance just like Traceythe same twists, the same shakesand the origins of a profound inequality are not a matter of distant history, but a present dance to the music of time.
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La loro pelle ha la stessa sfumatura di bruno, hanno lentiggini negli stessi punti e sono alte uguali. Quel sabato mattina del 1982 non sono ancora amiche né nemiche, si rivolgono appena la parola. Eppure una forza invisibile le collega, sulla soglia della loro prima lezione di danza. Tracey e la na
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La loro pelle ha la stessa sfumatura di bruno, hanno lentiggini negli stessi punti e sono alte uguali. Quel sabato mattina del 1982 non sono ancora amiche né nemiche, si rivolgono appena la parola. Eppure una forza invisibile le collega, sulla soglia della loro prima lezione di danza. Tracey e la na