Nw Author:Smith Zadie This is the story of a city. — The northwest corner of a city. 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. And many people in between. — Every city is like this. Cheek-by-jowl living. Separate worlds. — And then there are the visitations: the rare t... more »imes a stranger crosses a threshold without permission or warning, causing a disruption in the whole system. Like the April afternoon a woman came to Leah Hanwell?s door, seeking help, disturbing the peace, forcing Leah out of her isolation?
Zadie Smith?s brilliant tragi-comic new novel follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan ? as they try to make adult lives outside of Caldwell, the council estate of their childhood. 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.
Depicting the modern urban zone ? familiar to town-dwellers everywhere ? Zadie Smith?s NW is a quietly devastating novel of encounters, mercurial and vital, like the city itself.« less