{"product_id":"nw","title":"Nw","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of a city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe northwest corner of a city. Here you'll find guests and hosts, those with power and those without it, people who live somewhere special and others who live nowhere at all. And many people in between.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery city is like this. Cheek-by-jowl living. Separate worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd then there are the visitations: the rare times a stranger crosses a threshold without permission or warning, causing a disruption in the whole system. Like the April afternoon a woman came to Leah Hanwell's door, seeking help, disturbing the peace, forcing Leah out of her isolation...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZadie Smith's brilliant tragi-comic new novel follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan – as they try to make adult lives outside of Caldwell, the council estate of their childhood. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their London is 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDepicting the modern urban zone – familiar to town-dwellers everywhere – Zadie Smith's NW is a quietly devastating novel of encounters, mercurial and vital, like the city itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Club","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51455464014141,"sku":"9780241145555","price":12.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/3135\/9805\/files\/9780241145555.jpg?v=1772833730","url":"https:\/\/bookclub.org.nz\/products\/nw","provider":"Book Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}