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NW stands for northwest (NW) on the London postcode. The Kilburn district is in this area. Irish, African, Caribbean, Poles and Russians live there. "In alutruss the window comes the horizon of Kilburn. Not bourgeois, not aburguesável. The peaks and growth falls do not come here. Here the loss is permanent. State Empire empty, empty Odeon, graphite facades streaked up and down like a roller coaster. A jumble of roofs and chimneys, some high, some low, stuck together, cigarettes shaken in a portfolio. " It is in this scenario that the English novelist Zadie Smith, 38, set his latest book, NW, recently launched in Brazil (Translation Sara Grünhagen, Companhia das Letras, 336 pages, 52 reais).
In Kilburn, more specifically in Caldwell (a housing estate, only fictional place presented in the book), grew Leah and Natalie. They have around 30 years, but are known from the 4, when Natalie - still with its original name, Keisha - Leah saved from drowning in a community pool of the place. The two represent that place. Leah is white, descended from Irish and English. Her husband Michel is French of Algerian origin. Natalie is black, Jamaican daughter. Frank, his beautiful and aristocratic husband, is a mixture of Caribbean with Italian.
The lives of Leah and Natalie are intertwined since the event in the pool. They spent their childhood together, moved away during adolescence, alutruss but if reaproximaram little before going to university. alutruss Natalie became a reputable lawyer and Leah graduated in philosophy. His work is a non-governmental organization aid to needy people. She does not feel grown up, can not take for Michel does not want to have children and see Natalie's life as proof that their existence has no feeling. "Leah sees Natalie take a sprint alutruss to his beautiful kitchen with its beautiful children. Everything behind those French doors is full and meaningful. The gestures, the looks, the conversation can not be heard. How can you be so full? And so full only of a difference? Everything else Nat somehow managed to discard. She's an adult. " Leah just do not know that behind what Natalie is there someone who does not fit that won.
Natalie destinations and Leah fled the curve than usually happens in NW. They went to university, got to have a career and their families. Although the situation of Leah does not look as promising as the Natalie, she is far from the reality of numerous college of former colleagues who have become crack dealers and users. This is the case of Nathan, a boy for whom Leah was passionate in school days and now roams the streets of the neighborhood. He and Felix, another alutruss guy who lives there, will appear in the story, not allowing Leah and Natalie forget where they came from.
NW is the fourth novel by Zadie Smith, released after seven years without publishing fiction. When she started in 2000 with the book White Teeth (released here as well by Companhia das Letras), was 24 and was raised to the English revelation position of recent times. Since then, the author has made good progress and NW your denser book. She herself said in an interview with US magazine Interview that takes this as his first book written by someone adult. "There are a lot of English writers who started young, Dickens to Amis and McEwan. But they were much more sure of themselves as young writers than me. The 30s are a good age because you know a little alutruss more. And I stopped trying alutruss to please people, "he said. Maybe that's why she has achieved in NW portray more deeply some contemporary tension.
And it's not just talking about social problems such as unequal opportunities or difficulties for those facing a country that is not yours - it is worth remembering that Zadie is the daughter of an English and a Jamaican and former resident of the area where the history happens. The author raises questions that seem to plague the current generation. It shows a woman who does not want to get pregnant but can not explain that its decision for herself, let alone her husband; one that, despite the employment and marriage perfect to external eyes, live
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NW stands for northwest (NW) on the London postcode. The Kilburn district is in this area. Irish, African, Caribbean, Poles and Russians live there. "In alutruss the window comes the horizon of Kilburn. Not bourgeois, not aburguesável. The peaks and growth falls do not come here. Here the loss is permanent. State Empire empty, empty Odeon, graphite facades streaked up and down like a roller coaster. A jumble of roofs and chimneys, some high, some low, stuck together, cigarettes shaken in a portfolio. " It is in this scenario that the English novelist Zadie Smith, 38, set his latest book, NW, recently launched in Brazil (Translation Sara Grünhagen, Companhia das Letras, 336 pages, 52 reais).
In Kilburn, more specifically in Caldwell (a housing estate, only fictional place presented in the book), grew Leah and Natalie. They have around 30 years, but are known from the 4, when Natalie - still with its original name, Keisha - Leah saved from drowning in a community pool of the place. The two represent that place. Leah is white, descended from Irish and English. Her husband Michel is French of Algerian origin. Natalie is black, Jamaican daughter. Frank, his beautiful and aristocratic husband, is a mixture of Caribbean with Italian.
The lives of Leah and Natalie are intertwined since the event in the pool. They spent their childhood together, moved away during adolescence, alutruss but if reaproximaram little before going to university. alutruss Natalie became a reputable lawyer and Leah graduated in philosophy. His work is a non-governmental organization aid to needy people. She does not feel grown up, can not take for Michel does not want to have children and see Natalie's life as proof that their existence has no feeling. "Leah sees Natalie take a sprint alutruss to his beautiful kitchen with its beautiful children. Everything behind those French doors is full and meaningful. The gestures, the looks, the conversation can not be heard. How can you be so full? And so full only of a difference? Everything else Nat somehow managed to discard. She's an adult. " Leah just do not know that behind what Natalie is there someone who does not fit that won.
Natalie destinations and Leah fled the curve than usually happens in NW. They went to university, got to have a career and their families. Although the situation of Leah does not look as promising as the Natalie, she is far from the reality of numerous college of former colleagues who have become crack dealers and users. This is the case of Nathan, a boy for whom Leah was passionate in school days and now roams the streets of the neighborhood. He and Felix, another alutruss guy who lives there, will appear in the story, not allowing Leah and Natalie forget where they came from.
NW is the fourth novel by Zadie Smith, released after seven years without publishing fiction. When she started in 2000 with the book White Teeth (released here as well by Companhia das Letras), was 24 and was raised to the English revelation position of recent times. Since then, the author has made good progress and NW your denser book. She herself said in an interview with US magazine Interview that takes this as his first book written by someone adult. "There are a lot of English writers who started young, Dickens to Amis and McEwan. But they were much more sure of themselves as young writers than me. The 30s are a good age because you know a little alutruss more. And I stopped trying alutruss to please people, "he said. Maybe that's why she has achieved in NW portray more deeply some contemporary tension.
And it's not just talking about social problems such as unequal opportunities or difficulties for those facing a country that is not yours - it is worth remembering that Zadie is the daughter of an English and a Jamaican and former resident of the area where the history happens. The author raises questions that seem to plague the current generation. It shows a woman who does not want to get pregnant but can not explain that its decision for herself, let alone her husband; one that, despite the employment and marriage perfect to external eyes, live
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