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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 ! and a collection of essays! Changing My Mind . She is also the editor of The Book of Other People . Zadie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002! and was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. White Teeth won multiple literary awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize! the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. On Beauty was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction! and NW was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Klappentext Hot off the press from the huge success of "NW"! this is another remarkable work of fiction from the bestselling author. Beginning and ending outside the Embassy of Cambodia! bizarrely located in Willesden! NW London! this absorbing and wryly observed story suggests how the apparently small things in an ordinary life always raise larger! more extraordinary questions. 'One of the handful of novelists writing at present who really matter and who! we may confidently assume! will 'last'' "Times" Zusammenfassung Tells a story that takes us deep into the life of a young woman! Fatou! domestic servant to the Derawals and escapee from one set of hardships to another. Beginning and ending outside the Embassy of Cambodia! in London! this book suggests how the apparently small things in an ordinary life always raise larger! more extraordinary questions.
