The First Lines of Zadie Smith’s 'NW'

Good news in the literary world! The website The Millions has published the first paragraph of awaited new novel by British writer Zadie Smith, 'NW', to be released in September.

Here is the link:


http://www.themillions.com/2012/07/exclusive-the-first-lines-of-zadie-smiths-nw.html

And the text:

"The fat sun stalls by the phone masts. Anti-climb paint turns sulphurous on school gates and lampposts. In Willesden people go barefoot, the streets turn European, there is a mania for eating outside. She keeps to the shade. Redheaded. On the radio: I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me. A good line—write it out on the back of a magazine. In a hammock, in the garden of a basement flat. Fenced in, on all sides".


Earlier this month, the site also published a small preview about the book among other expected novels:

http://www.themillions.com/2012/07/most-anticipated-the-great-second-half-2012-book-preview.html


Lots of links, I know, but one last: in June, Zadie Smith published a text on North West London (hence NW) in the New York Review of Books that is really worth a read according to me:

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/jun/02/north-west-london-blues/

Enjoy!

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More on 'NW' bfrom its publisher, Peguin, here:

http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781594203978,00.html?NW_Zadie_Smith