Open Book: Zadie Smith
In a special programme Zadie Smith talks to Mariella Frostrup about her much anticipated new novel NW. This novel returns to the self-same streets of her debut, White Teeth, of...
In a special programme Zadie Smith talks to Mariella Frostrup about her much anticipated new novel NW.
This novel returns to the self-same streets of her debut, White Teeth, and views the world through the eyes of the two main protagonists, school friends Leah and Natalie. Its title refers to the postcode which covers the North West of London and where Smith herself was born and brought up.
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