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NW by Zadie Smith, which is set in north-west London and takes its name from the area’s postcode. The experimental narrative follows four characters from working-class backgrounds whose lives continue to intersect even as they pursue very different paths, resulting in a vivid and immersive portrait of modern life in London.
NW is Smith’s fourth novel; it garnered widespread popular and critical acclaim, and was nominated for the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her other works include the novels
White Teeth and
Swing Time, and the essay collections
Changing My Mind and
Feel Free.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019
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ZADIE SMITH
ENGLISH WRITER
Born in London in 1975.Notable works:White Teeth (2000), novelOn Beauty (2005), novelSwing Time (2016), novelZadie Smith is an English writer of fiction and non-fiction. Her first novel, White Teeth, was highly successful and established her as one of the most prominent writers of her generation. Her successive works have helped to consolidate this.
Smith is the daughter of a Jamaican mother and an English father. She grew up in London, which is the setting for many of her works of fiction, and studied English literature at the University of Cambridge. She is an acclaimed writer who has received several prizes for her books, including the Whitbread First Novel Award for White Teeth in 2000 and the Orange Prize for Fiction for On Beauty in 2006. Smith’s literary style varies from different forms of realism to highly experimental fiction. She is known for her social satire, sharp observations and lively dialogues, and for her handling of subjects such as race, class, immigration, gender, identity and religion.
NW
PORTRAITS OF LIFE IN NORTHWEST LONDON
Genre: novelReference edition: Smith, Z. (2013) NW. London: Penguin Books.1stedition: 2012Themes: social class, gender, sexuality, identity, multiculturality, race, adulthood, timeNW portrays life in northwest London. The novel’s title designates a postcode of this area, which is the centre of its characters’ world. The characters, now adults, have grown up in a council estate in the area, and the novel follows the turns their lives have taken and shows how their background keeps defining them in many ways. Leah Hanwell, Natalie Blake and Nathan Bogle were in school together, but their current lives are very different from one another. However, their common past and social background remains significant.
Smith explores themes such as social class, immigration, multiculturality, gender, adulthood and the passage of time in this novel. NW is stylistically remarkable, and the multitude of different kinds of people in London is matched with a variety of literary devices. Smith experiments with mixing different narrative techniques: relatively traditional third-person narration, stream of consciousness and stage direction-like passages find their places in the novel, along with unusual punctuation and use of space on the pages of the book, creating a whole which is fragmented but interconnected.
