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Zadie Smith

Start date: April 15, 2013

Finish date: May 15, 2013

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Sep 26, 2012 Roy rated it liked it

Shelves: women-authored

Carrying this book around I learned that just about everyone has read and really loved White Teeth, Zadie Smith's debut novel. Some of her faithful devotees may be less enamored with NW. Not that it isn't skillfully written. But the very fragmented style Smith chose to present it in probably will not be everybody's cup of tea. The choppy format did not take away from my ability to again perceive that Smith is an exceptional talent, but this book's flow took some getting accustomed to for me pers ...more

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Jan 25, 2013 Dree rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: england-uk-ireland, women-s-prize-long-short, 2013-reads

This book has an English accent, and I needed subtitles.

I know next to nothing about the English school, college, and legal systems, and nothing at all about their public housing systems. I think knowing this stuff would make this book more meaningful.

And it is fine with me if I never read the word "Innit" again. ...more

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Jan 06, 2017 Laura rated it liked it

Shelves: contemporary-fiction, british-literature, kindle, e-books, read-2017, mtbr-challenge-2017, viciados-em-livros

A pleasant reading with no exceptional twists the plot.

3* White Teeth
4* Miss Adele amidst the Corsets
2* The Autograph Man
3* NW
TR On Beauty
TR The Embassy of Cambodia
TR Swing Time

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