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Zadie Smith
Author profile
born
in London Borough of Brent, The United Kingdom
October 27, 1975
gender
female
website
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influences
Vladimir Nabokov, E.M. Forster, Charles Dickens, P.G. Wodehouse, Marti...more
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White Teeth
— published 1999 — 75 editions |
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On Beauty
— published 2005 — 49 editions |
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NW
— published 2012 — 14 editions |
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The Autograph Man
— published 2002 — 43 editions |
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Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
— published 2009 — 20 editions |
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The Book of Other People
by Zadie Smith, David Mitchell , George Saunders — published 2007 — 13 editions |
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Zadie Smith Introduces the Burned Children of America
— published 2003 — 3 editions |
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Martha and Hanwell
— published 2005 |
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Piece Of Flesh
— published 2001 |
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Perché scrivere
by Zadie Smith, Marina Astrologo , Martina Testa — published 2011 — 2 editions |
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September 2012,
Zadie Smith
"The acclaimed author of White Teeth again taps into London's pell-mell rhythm in her new tragi-comic novel, NW, told in the city's multicultural vernacular." ...More
"The acclaimed author of White Teeth again taps into London's pell-mell rhythm in her new tragi-comic novel, NW, told in the city's multicultural vernacular." ...More
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“She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.”
― Zadie Smith
― Zadie Smith
“It's a funny thing about the modern world. You hear girls in the toilets of clubs saying, "Yeah, he fucked off and left me. He didn't love me. He just couldn't deal with love. He was too fucked up to know how to love me." Now, how did that happen? What was it about this unlovable century that convinced us we were, despite everything, eminently lovable as a people, as a species? What made us think that anyone who fails to love us is damaged, lacking, malfunctioning in some way? And particularly if they replace us with a god, or a weeping madonna, or the face of Christ in a ciabatta roll---then we call them crazy. Deluded. Regressive. We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth
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