NW
2012 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. One of TIME's Top 10 Fiction Books of 2012. Set in northwest London, Zadie Smith's brilliant tragicomic novel follows four locals. . . Leah, Natalie, Felix, and Nathan. . . as they try to make adult lives outside of Caldwell, the council estate of their childhood. In private houses and public parks, at work and at play, these Londoners inhabit 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. Depicting the modern urban zone. . . familiar to city-dwellers everywhere. . . NW is a quietly devastating novel of encounters, mercurial and vital, like the city itself.