Zadie Smiths brilliant tragi-comic NW follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. NW is Zadie Smiths masterful novel about London life. She is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man and On Beauty which won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and of a collection of essays, Changing My Mind. As a student at Cambridge she writes White Teeth (2000), an ebullient, epically proportioned novel about multicultural London. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975. Zadie Smith’s biography is one of contemporary writing’s fondest and most famous yarns of precocious and meteoric literary success. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their London is 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. NW follows four Londoners – Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan – as they try to make adult lives outside Caldwell, the council estate of their childhood. Decidedly less radiant than some of her earlier works, 'NW. Like the April afternoon a woman came to Leah Hanwell’s door, seeking help, disturbing the peace, forcing Leah out of her isolation. Zadie Smiths latest novel, 'NW,' is an exploration into the joys and problems of a modern friendship between two women in North London. Zadie Smiths brilliant tragi-comic NW follows four Londoners Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan. Yet after a chance encounter they each find that.

From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their city is brutal, beautiful and complicated. Separate worlds.Īnd then there are the visitations: the rare times a stranger crosses a threshold without permission or warning, causing a disruption in the whole system. NW is Zadie Smiths masterful novel about London life. 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.

Here you’ll find guests and hosts, those with power and those without it, people who live somewhere special and others who live nowhere at all.

NW by Zadie Smith