Zadie Smith's astonishingly accomplished first novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time.
Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW, Swing Time and The Fraud; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia; four collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free, Intimations and Dead and Alive; a collection of short stories, Grand Union; and the play, The Wife of Willesden, adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London, where she still lives.
Funny, clever ... and a rollicking good read
*Independent*
Do believe the hype, buy into it, curl up with it, savour every
sentence, then turn around and re-read
*The Times*
An impressive début, not only for its vitality and verve, but
mainly for the sheer audacity of its scope and vision ... an epic
tale ... swooping, funny ... it has ambition, wit and is
unafraid
*Express*
Announces the debut of a preternaturally gifted new writer ...
street-smart and learned, sassy and philosophical all at the same
time
*The New York Times*
Relentlessly funny ... idiosyncratic, and deeply felt
*Guardian*
An astonishingly assured début, funny and serious ... I was
delighted
*Salman Rushdie*
She is . . . a George Eliot of multi-culturalism
*Daily Telegraph*
[Zadie Smith] is one of the prominent voices of her generation
*Sunday Times*
Britain's finest young author
*The List*
[Zadie Smith] packs more intelligence, humour and sheer energy into
any given scene than anyone else of her generation
*Sunday Telegraph*
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