Grand Union. Stories

Sobre el libro Grand Union. Stories de Zadie Smith publicado por Random UK en 2019:

In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London lives the last day of his life, unknowingly caught in someone else´s story of hate and division, resistance and revolt. A mother looks back on her early forays into matters of the human heart - and other parts of the human body - considering the ways in which desire is always an act of negotiation, destruction, and self-invention. A disgraced cop stands amid the broken shards of his life, unable to move forward into a future that holds no place for him. Moral panic spreads like contagion through the upper echelons of New York City - and the cancelled people look disconcertingly like the rest of us. A teenage scion of the technocratic elite chases spectres through a premium virtual reality, trailed by a little girl with a runny nose and no surviving family. We all take a much-needed break from this mess, on a package holiday where the pool´s electric blue is ceaselessly replenished, while political and environmental collapse happen far away, to someone else...