As if the question itself were to obvious to truly concern her. She began to exist for other people, and if ever asked a question to which she did not know the answer she was wont to fold her arms across her body and look upward. In the child's mind a breach now appeared: between what she believed she knew of herself, essentially, and her essence as others seemed to understand it. She was unable to glean real satisfaction from accidents. She could not help her mutated will - no more than she could help the shape of her feet or the street on which she was born. Wasn't it possible that what others mistook as intelligence might in fact be only a sort of mutation of the will? She could sit in one place longer than other children be bored for hours without complaint, and was completely devoted to filling in every last corner of the coloring books Augustus Blake sometimes brought home. On the other hand, that she should receive any praise for such reflexive habits baffled the girl, for she knew herself to be fantastically stupid about many things. Funny, poignant and vividly contemporary, NW is as brimming with vitality as the city itself.“She wanted to read things - could not resist wanting to read things - and reading was easily done, and relatively inexpensive. 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. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their city is brutal, beautiful and complicated. Zadie Smith's brilliant tragicomic 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. NW is Zadie Smiths masterful novel about London life.Zadie Smiths brilliant tragi-comic NW follows four Londoners Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan. She's up there with the best around' Evening Standard Funny, sexy, weird, full of acute social comedy.
A joyous, optimistic, angry masterpiece' Daily Telegraph
'Intensely funny, richly varied, always unexpected. 2013)įrom the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Swing Time, White Teeth and On Beauty - a masterful and intimate novel of modern London life
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