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Grand Union by Zadie Smith (hardback Oct 2019)
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The first ever collection of stories from the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Swing Time and White Teeth'
Zadie Smith is the best writer of our generation' Gary Shteyngart'
'Smith is virtuosic, as ever, on family and friendship, and her ability to write about large-scale social injustice without losing her neutral novelist's gaze is breathtaking' Times Literary Supplement on Swing Time
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