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Informationen zum Autor Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth , The Autograph Man , On Beauty , NW and Swing Time ; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia ; three collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free and Intimations ; a collection of short stories, Grand Union ; and the play, The Wife of Willesden , adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People . Zadie Smith was born in north-west London, where she still lives. The Fraud is her first historical novel. Klappentext Paperback. Pub Date :2013-01-01 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Books 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 times 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 ... Zusammenfassung From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Swing Time, White Teeth and On Beauty - a masterful and intimate novel of modern London life 'A triumph. Every sentence sings' Guardian 'Intensely funny, richly varied, always unexpected. A joyous, optimistic, angry masterpiece' Daily Telegraph 'Smith's most satisfying novel. Funny, sexy, weird, full of acute social comedy. She's up there with the best around' Evening Standard Zadie Smith's brilliant tragicomic 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. Funny, poignant and vividly contemporary, NW is as brimming with vitality as the city itself. ...
