An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from north west London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty
Two brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either ...
Im Gespräch mit dem spanischen Philosophen Carlos Oliveira analysiert Peter Sloterdijk die Lebens-, Liebes- und Bewusstseinslagen des modernen Großstadtmenschen. Zugleich gibt er einen Rückblick auf seinen eigenen Werdegang.