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born 1975 England
Zadie Smith (born October 27, 1975) is a British novelist. Her fiction is mainly set in London.
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He traced the genealogy of the feeling
On Beauty (2005)
He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.
On Beauty (2005)
… and catholics give out forgiveness at the same time politicians give out promises and whores give out.
White Teeth (2000)
He talked and talked, the kind of talking you do to stave off the inevitable physical desire. The kind of talk that only increases it.
White Teeth (2000)
… dressed all in yellow spreading warmth and the promise of sex.
White Teeth (2000)
As a reader, I want to claim fellowship with "good writing" without limits; to be able to say that Hurston is my sister and Baldwin is my brother, and so is Kafka my brother, and Nabokov, and Woolf my sister, and Eliot and Ozick. Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
Changing My Mind (2009)