# Swing Time

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- Authors: [Zadie Smith](https://www.bookquiver.com/zadie-smith)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2016-11-15
- Genres: Fiction: literary and general non-genre

## Description

Dazzlingly energetic and deeply human, Swing Time is a story about friendship and music and true identity, how they shape us and how we can survive them. Moving from north-west London to West Africa, it is an exuberant dance to the music of time. 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...

## Editions

### Swing Time

- Publisher: Penguin Books
- ISBN: 978-01-4311-164-1
- Pages: 464
- Published: 2017-09-05
- Language: en_US

### Swing Time

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4103-660-1
- Pages: 464
- Published: 2017-07-06
- Language: en_GB

### Swing Time

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4196-530-6
- Published: 2016-11-15
- Language: en_GB

### Swing Time

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: audio
- Length: 13 h 44 min
- Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner
- ISBN: 978-02-4197-911-2
- Published: 2016-11-15
- Language: en_GB

## This book in other languages

- [Swing Time](https://www.bookquiver.com/zadie-smith/de/swing-time) (de_DE)
- [Swing Time](https://www.bookquiver.com/zadie-smith/it/swing-time) (it_IT)
- [Swing Time](https://www.bookquiver.com/zadie-smith/pl/swing-time) (pl_PL)
- [Swing Time](https://www.bookquiver.com/zadie-smith/pt/swing-time) (pt_PT)