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Author: Zadie Smith

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  • : $22.99 AUD
  • : 9780141036595
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
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  • : 0.278
  • : November 2013
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 22mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 22.99
  • : July 2013
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  • : English
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Barcode 9780141036595
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Description

Zadie Smith's brilliant tragi-comic 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. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their city is brutal, beautiful and complicated. 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. A portrait of modern urban life, NW is funny, sad and urgent - as brimming with vitality as the city itself. 

Awards

Shortlisted for Ondaatje Prize 2013.

Author description

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.