Best Selling Books by Zadie Smith

Twenty-four-year-old Zadie Smith burst into the public eye with this debut novel, which shows blazing flashes of wit and precocious insight. Here''s the full, inside story behind this remarkable work: Where did Smith get the idea for the story? What does the novel say about history and how it affects ordinary people? Can we ever really escape the past? How has Smith reacted to becoming such a media sensation?

The ''father of English literature'' Geoffrey Chaucer meets the ''voice of new England'' Zadie Smith ''Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend. She plays many roles round here. And never Scared to tell the whole of her truth, whether Or not anyone wants to hear it. Wife Of Willesden: pissed enough to tell her life Story to whoever has ears and eyes . . .'' A riotous "North Wheezian" translation of Geoffrey Chaucer''s The Wife of Bath''s Prologue.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Hyundai Commission: Kara Walker: Fons Americanus, Tate Modern, London, 2 October 2019 - 5 April 2020.

Détenteur de records de vente toujours inégalés dans l''histoire du disque, Michael Jackson, qui figure parmi les personnalités les plus représentées de ces cinquante dernières années, inspire d''innombrables peintres, sculpteurs ou plasticiens de premier plan, tels qu''Isa Genzken, Grayson Perry, Andy Warhol ou Kehinde Wiley... Le présent ouvrage, qui rassemble plus de 80 oeuvres de près de 60 créateurs contemporains, s''intéresse aux raisons qui ont poussé tant d''artistes à prendre Michael Jackson pour sujet et décrypte la manière dont ils ont abordé cette icône mondiale à la personnalité fascinante.

Letter about the literary influence of Nabokov on Smith ("Pnin & Lolita would be amongst my top five novels of the century").