Book description
NW is Zadie Smith's masterful novel about London life.
Zadie Smith's brilliant tragi-comic NW follows four
Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan - after they've left their
childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different lives.
From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their city
is brutal, beautiful and complicated. Yet after a chance encounter
they each find that the choices they've made, the people they once
were and are now, can suddenly, rapidly unravel. A portrait of modern
urban life, NW is funny, sad and urgent - as brimming with
vitality as the city itself.
Praise for NW:
'Her dialogue sings and soars; terse, packed and sassy. Smith is
simply wonderful: Dickens's legitimate daughter' Boyd Tonkin, Independent
'Astonishing, dazzling. Really - without exaggeration - not since
Dickens has there been a better observer of London scenes. Zadie Smith
is a genius. It's hard to imagine a better novel this year - or this
decade' A. N. Wilson
'Intensely funny, richly varied, always unexpected. A joyous,
optimistic, angry masterpiece. No better English novel will be
published this year' Philip Hensher, Daily Telegraph
'Absolutely brilliant. So electrically authentic' TIME
'Captivating. Funny, sexy, weird, full of acute social comedy, like
London. She's up there with the best around' Evening Standard
'Marvellous . . . crackles with reflections on race, music and
migration. A lyrical fiction for our times' Spectator
'Undeniably brilliant . . . rush out and buy this book'
Observer
Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975. She is the author
of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man
and On Beauty, and of a collection of essays,
Changing My Mind
. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People.
Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975, and still lives in
the area. She is the author of the novels
White Teeth
,
The Autograph Man
and
On Beauty,
and of a collection of essays,
Changing My Mind
.
She is also the editor of
The Book of Other People
.
