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..
PRADEEP CHACHAN (Verified Purchase)
I did not like this book it was so disjointed jumping from one place or time to another. It was difficult to follow some of the themes. The strongest being interfering in Africa.
Aman Singh (Verified Purchase)
I absolutely loved this – Smith writes with an exuberance and joy which is really absorbing and I love how the books are situated so firmly in time and context. Not five stars as I’m not quite sure about the ending…
Kamrendra Kumar (Verified Purchase)
Very readable but quite dull and over long – for what it had to say. Bit like shopping at John Lewis – efficient, gets the job done but where’s the excitement for all that investment?
RANJEET MUKHERJEE (Verified Purchase)
I read avidly but found this a confusing book and even though I followed the main characters I found the others very confusing.
I struggled to finish but couldn’t say I enjoyed it.
Uttam Samanta (Verified Purchase)
A good read, liked the relationship between the two main characters as they were growing up. Think we could all relate to how friends when we are young can shape us as adults.