Two brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, black bodies and black music, what it means to belong, what it means to be 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. Bursting with energy, rhythm and movement, Swing Time is Zadie Smith's most ambitious novel yet. It is a story about music and identity, race and class, those who follow the dance and those who lead it . . .

Un roman rythmé et plein d’énergie, certainement le plus ambitieux de l’oeuvre de Zadie Smith. Une histoire sur les identités, les races et les classes, sur ceux qui mènent la danse et ceux qui la suivent...