| NW Contributor(s): Smith, Zadie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0143123939 ISBN-13: 9780143123934 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Sagas - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.6" W x 8.6" (0.75 lbs) 416 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist - One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2012 - One of TIME's Top 10 Fiction Books of 2012 - One of The Wall Street Journal's Best 10 Fiction Books of 2012 - A New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book of 2012 "[NW] is that rare thing, a book that is radical and passionate and real." --Anne Enright, The New York Times Book Review "A triumph . . . As Smith threads together her characters' inner and outer worlds, every sentence sings." --The Guardian "A powerful portrait of class and identity in multicultural London." --Entertainment Weekly 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 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. |