The Embassy of Cambodia
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First published this Spring in the New Yorker, The Embassy of Cambodia is a rare and brilliant story from Zadie Smith, taking us deep into the life of a young woman, Fatou, domestic servant to the Derawals and escapee from one set of hardships to another.
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First published this Spring in the New Yorker, The Embassy of Cambodia is a rare and brilliant story from Zadie Smith, taking us deep into the life of a young woman, Fatou, domestic servant to the Derawals and escapee from one set of hardships to another.
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Revisiting the terrain of her acclaimed novel NW , The Embassy of Cambodia is another remarkable work of fiction from Zadie Smith.'The fact is, if we followed the history of every little country in the world -- in its dramatic as well as its quiet times -- we would have no space left in which to live our own lives or apply ourselves to our necessary tasks, never mind indulge in occasional pleasures, like swimming . . . '
First published in the New Yorker , The Embassy of Cambodia is a rare and brilliant story that takes us deep into the life of a young woman, Fatou, domestic servant to the Derawals and escapee from one set of hardships to another.
Beginning and ending outside the Embassy of Cambodia, which happens to be located in Willesden, north-west London, Zadie Smith's absorbing, moving and wryly observed story suggests how the apparently small things in an ordinary life always raise larger, more extraordinary questions.
'Its range is lightly immense... a fiction of consequences both global and heart-rendingly intimate' Guardian
'Smith serves up a smasher' Independent
Playful... unexpected and absolutely right... Skips to a beat all of its own' Times
Praise for NW :
'A triumph . . .modern London is explored in a dazzling portrait . . . every sentence sings' Guardian
'Intensely funny, richly varied, always unexpected. A joyous, optimistic, angry masterpiece. No better English novel will be published this year' Philip Hensher , Daily Telegraph
'Absolutely brilliant . . . So electrically authentic, it reads like surveillance transcripts' Lev Grossman , TIME
Autoren-Porträt von Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith, 1975 geboren in Willesden, halb Jamaikanerin, halb Britin, lebt mit ihrer Mutter in Willesden Green, einer multikulturellen Gegend im Norden Londons. Mit dem Schreiben begann sie während ihres Examens am King's College in Cambridge, "als Ausgleich zu dem langweiligen Lernen". Mit ihrem Debüt avancierte sie zum Liebling der Literaturszene. 2006 erhielt sie den Orange-Literaturpreis.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Zadie Smith
- 2013, 80 Seiten, Maße: 11,8 x 16,7 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Books UK
- ISBN-10: 0241146526
- ISBN-13: 9780241146521
- Erscheinungsdatum: 07.11.2013
Sprache:
Englisch
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