Zadie Smith writes beautifully. NW changes style and format on multiple occasions as focus shifts from one character to the next. For the most part, this works well. Occasionally, it puts the character in a disconnected zone - just reading a timeline of someone's life. While I'm sure that distance i...
Review published in The Millions: http://www.themillions.com/2012/09/lamenting-the-modern-on-zadie-smiths-nw.htmlZadie Smith’s fourth novel, NW, sees her return to Willesden, northwest London, the same setting as her debut novel, White Teeth. Her first novel in seven years, NW signifies a departure ...
Ambitious, dark, and beautiful. Smith tells a compelling modern tale through differing perspectives and styles. It's my first Zadie Smith novel but I have her backlist queued up for the near future.
Read an excerpt of this in the New Yorker. It's insanely good. This struck me as eerily accurate, looking back on my own childhood friendships:"It had never occurred to Keisha Blake that her friend Leah Hanwell was in possession of a particular type of personality. As with most children, theirs was ...
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