Set in northwest London, Zadie Smith's brilliant tragicomic novel follows four locals - Leah, Natalie, Fox, and Nathan - as they try to make adult lives outside of Caldwell, the council estate of their childhood. In private houses and public parks, at work and at play, these Londoners inhabit a complicated place, as beautiful as it is brutal, where the thoroughfares hide the back alleys and taking the high road can sometimes lead you to a dead end. Depicting the modern urban zone - familiar to city-dwellers everywhere - NW is a quietly devastating novel of encounters, mercurial and vital, like the city itself.
By:
Zadie Smith Imprint: Penguin Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 197mm,
Width: 128mm,
Spine: 21mm
Weight: 247g ISBN:9780141036595 ISBN 10: 0141036591 Pages: 352 Publication Date:01 August 2013 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
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.