In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London lives
the last day of his life, unknowingly caught in someone else's story of
hate and division, resistance and revolt. A mother looks back on her
early forays into matters of the human heart - and other parts of the
human body - considering the ways in which desire is always an act of
negotiation, destruction, and self-invention.
A disgraced cop
stands amid the broken shards of his life, unable to move forward into a
future that holds no place for him. Moral panic spreads like
contagion through the upper echelons of New York City - and the
cancelled people look disconcertingly like the rest of us. A teenage
scion of the technocratic elite chases spectres through a premium
virtual reality, trailed by a little girl with a runny nose and no
surviving family.
We all take a much-needed break from this
mess, on a package holiday where the pool's electric blue is ceaselessly
replenished, while political and environmental collapse happen far
away, to someone else. Interleaving eleven completely new and
unpublished stories with some of her best-loved pieces from the New
Yorker and elsewhere, Zadie Smith presents a dizzyingly rich and varied
collection of fiction. Moving exhilaratingly across genres and
perspectives, from the historic to the vividly current to the slyly
dystopian, Grand Union is a sharply alert and prescient collection about
time and place, identity and rebirth, the persistent legacies that
haunt our present selves and the uncanny futures that rush up to meet
us.
Grand Union - Zadie Smith
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