{"product_id":"9781594203978","title":"NW","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eTen Best Books of 2012\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A boldly Joycean appropriation, fortunately not so difficult of entry as its great model… Like Zadie Smith’s much-acclaimed predecessor \u003ci\u003eWhite Teeth \u003c\/i\u003e(2000), \u003ci\u003eNW\u003c\/i\u003e is an urban epic.” —Joyce Carol Oates, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of a city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe northwest corner of a city. Here you’ll find guests and hosts, those with power and those without it, people who live somewhere special and others who live nowhere at all.  And many people in between.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery city is like this. Cheek-by-jowl living. Separate worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd then there are the visitations: the rare times a stranger crosses a threshold without permission or warning, causing a disruption in the whole system. Like the April afternoon a woman came to Leah Hanwell’s door, seeking help, disturbing the peace, forcing Leah out of her isolation…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZadie Smith’s brilliant tragi-comic new novel follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan – as they try to make adult lives outside of Caldwell, the council estate of their childhood. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDepicting the modern urban zone – familiar to town-dwellers everywhere – Zadie Smith’s \u003ci\u003eNW\u003c\/i\u003e is a quietly devastating novel of encounters, mercurial and vital, like the city itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZadie Smith’s newest novel, \u003ci\u003eSwing Time\u003c\/i\u003e, will be published by Penguin Press in November 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47046498943216,"sku":"9781594203978","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781594203978_p0.jpg?v=1763810769","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781594203978","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}