NW Author:Zadie Smith 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 other who live nowhere at all. And many people in between. — Every city is like this. Cheek-by-jowl living. Separate worlds. — And then there ... more »are the visitations: the rare times a stranger crosses a threshold without permission or warning, causing a disruption in the whole system. Like the April afternoon a women 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
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