Forest Dark

MUNICH, SEPTEMBER 1938 Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. They will meet in a city which forever afterwards will be notorious for what is about to take place. As Chamberlain’s plane judders over the channel and the Fuhrer’s train steams south, two young men travel with their […]

The long-awaited novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Anna observes the uniformed servants, […]

Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question. First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn’t know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen, he’s proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of […]

De två flickorna växer upp tillsammans i norra London och älskar dans. Den ena har talang, den andra har idéer, drömmen om framgång lever för dem båda. Men när deras vägar korsas igen i vuxen ålder har tiden förändrat dem. Med Swing time har Zadie Smith skrivit en stor och oemotståndlig samtidsroman; en globaliserad berättelse […]