Intimations

Resumen del libro

One of Time Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 and an FT Best Book of the YearThought-provoking and deeply consoling, a perfectly distilled set of essays on the strangest year many of us have experienced, from one of our wisest and most humane thinkers'As well as offering a new guide to living in a wild, messy and unfair world, Smith provides a reminder that we can use this crisis to imagine a better one' Evening Standard Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lockdown, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our timeFrom the critically acclaimed author of Feel Free, Swing Time, White Teeth and many more'There will be many books written about the year 2020: historical, analytic, political and comprehensive accounts. This is not any of those - the year isn't half-way done. What I've tried to do is organize some of the feelings and thoughts that events, so far, have provoked in me, in those scraps of time the year itself has allowed.

These are above all personal essays: small by definition, short by necessity.' Crafted with the sharp intelligence, wit and style that have won Zadie Smith millions of fans, and suffused with a profound intimacy and tenderness in response to these unprecedented times, Intimations is a vital work of art, a gesture of connection and an act of love - an essential book in extraordinary times. 'Zadie Smith is a marvel - her soulfulness, her sensitivity, her ability to write . .

. She doesn't try to make grand statements but just leaves you with the sense that you're in the company of someone who can help you feel things deeply' Tom Hollander in the Guardian

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Zadie Smith x{0026}lt;/B (Londres, 1975) estudió Filología Inglesa en la Universidad de Cambridge. Miembro de la Royal Society of Literature y la American Academy of Arts and Letters, es profesora de narrativa en la Universidad de Nueva York y colabora habitualmente en x{0026}lt;I The New Yorker x{0026}lt;/I y en x{0026}lt;I The New York Review of Booksx{0026}lt;/I . En Salamandra ha publicado las novelas x{0026}lt;I Dientes blancosx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El cazador de autógrafosx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Sobre la bellezax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I NW Londonx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Tiempos de swingx{0026}lt;/I , los ensayos x{0026}lt;I Cambiar de ideax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Contemplaciones x{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Con total libertadx{0026}lt;/I , y las recopilaciones de relatos x{0026}lt;I El libro de los otrosx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Grand Unionx{0026}lt;/I .x{0026}lt;/P