3.4

Nw

von Zadie Smith

Format:Hardcover

NW is Zadie Smith's masterful novel about London life. Zadie Smith's brilliant tragi-comic 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. A portrait of modern urban life, NW is funny, sad and urgent - as brimming with vitality as the city itself.Praise for NW:'Her dialogue sings and soars; terse, packed and sassy. Smith is simply wonderful: Dickens's legitimate daughter' Boyd Tonkin, Independent'Astonishing, dazzling. Really - without exaggeration - not since Dickens has there been a better observer of London scenes. Zadie Smith is a genius. It's hard to imagine a better novel this year - or this decade' A.N. Wilson'Intensely funny, richly varied, always unexpected. A joyous, optimistic, angry masterpiece. No better English novel will be published this year' Philip Hensher, Daily Telegraph'Absolutely brilliant. So electrically authentic' TIME'Captivating. Funny, sexy, weird, full of acute social comedy, like London. She's up there with the best around' Evening Standard'Marvellous . . . crackles with reflections on race, music and migration. A lyrical fiction for our times' Spectator'Undeniably brilliant . . . rush out and buy this book' ObserverZadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975. She is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man and On Beauty, and of a collection of essays, Changing My Mind. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People.

Literary & Contemporary Fiction
Hardcover
Erschienen an: 2012

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Aktuelle Rezensionen(2)

3.4(14 ratings)
dajameepRezension von dajameep

Interesting read. Der Schreibstil ist nicht so, wie der der meisten Romane. Hier werden Gedanken und Gesagtes kaum unterscheidbar miteinander vermischt. Die Gedankengänge werden so geschildert, wie sie auch als Gedanken auftauchen - manchmal wild durcheinander und scheinbar zusammenhangslos. Aber es hat Spaß gemacht, dem Buch zu folgen. Anstrengend war es jedoch für mich, das Buch wieder in die Hand zu nehmen. Es gab zwar immer wieder kleine Handlungsstränge, aber es war nicht so, dass ich unbedingt weiterlesen wollte, um herauszufinden, wie es weitergeht. Das Buch folgt viel mehr ein paar Charakteren durch ihr Leben, ohne dabei zu starke Spannungsbögen aufzubauen. Dennoch war es sehr interessant, dem Geschehen zu folgen.

BennoRezension von Benno

The most boring and uninteresting book I have read for a long time!

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