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By Zadie Smith

ISBN-10: 1101595922

ISBN-13: 9781101595923

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"A boldly Joycean appropriation, thankfully no longer so tough of access as its nice model... Like Zadie Smith's much-acclaimed predecessor White enamel (2000), NW is an city epic." —Joyce Carol Oates, the hot York evaluation of Books

This is the tale of a city.

The northwest nook of a urban. right here you'll locate site visitors and hosts, people with energy and people with out it, those who stay someplace precise and others who stay nowhere in any respect. and lots of humans in between.

Every urban is like this. Cheek-by-jowl dwelling. Separate worlds.

And then there are the visitations: the infrequent occasions a stranger crosses a threshold with out permission or caution, inflicting a disruption within the complete procedure. just like the April afternoon a lady got here to Leah Hanwell's door, looking support, demanding the peace, forcing Leah out of her isolation...

Zadie Smith's tremendous tragi-comic new novel follows 4 Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan – as they struggle to make grownup lives outdoors of Caldwell, the council property in their formative years. From deepest homes to public parks, at paintings and at play, their London is a classy position, as appealing because it is brutal, the place the thoroughfares disguise the again alleys and taking the excessive street can occasionally lead you to a lifeless end.

Depicting the trendy city quarter – conventional to town-dwellers far and wide – Zadie Smith's NW is a quietly devastating novel of encounters, mercurial and very important, just like the urban itself.

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