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Twenty-first century Northwest London: rich and poor, black and white, joyful and melancholy, boring and deviant, and occasionally lethal . . . 

Depicting the modern urban zone, familiar to town-dwellers everywhere, Zadie Smith's brilliant tragi-comic novel NW is a quietly devastating tale of encounters, each as mercurial and vital as the city itself.  From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, this London is a complicated place, as beautiful as it is brutal, where the thoroughfares hide the back alleys, and taking the high road can sometimes lead you to a dead end.

"An extraordinary vision of our age." -- Washington Post