Arts & Books Magazine Class race Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith’s “Swing Time”—a successful return to her roots

Smith goes back to the world of "White Teeth" in her most mature novel yet

By Sameer Rahim

October 12, 2016

November 2016

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Swing Time by Zadie Smith (Hamish Hamilton, £18.99)

VS Naipaul knows how hard it is to write fiction in the wake of an early success. His buoyant masterpiece A House for Mr Biswas (1961), drawing on his childhood in Trinidad, came out while he was still in his twenties. The later novels—whatever their virtues—never…

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Sameer Rahim

Sameer Rahim is Prospect’s Managing Editor. His novel “Asghar and Zahra” (JM Originals) was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. He was a judge for the 2020 Booker Prize