Zadie Smith

The young and beautiful british novelist Zadie Smith (25 October 1975) is one of today's most admired writers in the world. Her book White Teeth is considered a masterpiece by some critics, and it was listed by Time as one of the best novels of the period 1923-2005. That's quite an achievement. White Teeth, published in 2000, describes the lives of two friends; one from Bangladesh (Samad Iqbal), and the other from England, Archie Jones. They both live in London and the story also revolves around their families. The novel's main attraction is also one hot topic of nowadays: immigration and the quandaries of life in new and foreign-unfamiliar societies.
The conflict between different cultures and discrimination and how this can affect people's lives is one of the novel's keys. The topic of multiculturalism and memory join to display Smith's whole potential as a great plot-developer.

 

"White teeth" works as a metaphor for the universal communion of people.

 

Zadie Smith latest work, "NW", has recently hit the market. The novel develops in London and as NW is the code of the area, thus the title of the book. Again, as in White Teeth, we go along the four principal characters to live a brilliantly written argument, full of sharp social critique and a vision of reality that makes us ask very difficult questions to answer, and very problematic ones. 

 

In what appears to be the Smith's favorite subject, again we see multiculturalism and social power relations evolving and dictating people's lives.

For sure, Smith's NW will have a huge impact on today's narrative, changing the landscape of current literature.

She's also the author of the short stories Mirrored Box, The Girl With Bangs, Permission to Enter, Martha ,Martha, Stuart, and of the novels The Autograph Man and On Beauty.