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Descriere

One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2012 Set in northwest London, Zadie Smith s brilliant tragicomic novel follows four locals Leah, Natalie, Felix, 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 inhabita 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. Zadie Smith s newest novel, Swing Time, will be published by Penguin Press in November 2016.""

Despre autor

Zadie Smith

scriitoare britanică · n. 1975

Zadie Adeline Smith FRSL este o romancieră, eseistă și scriitoare de proză scurtă engleză. Romanul său de debut, Dinți albi (2000), a devenit imediat un bestseller și a câștigat mai multe premii. Este profesor titular în Scriere Creativă la Universitatea din New York din septembrie 2010.