thepenguinpress: “There is a connection between boredom and the desire for chaos. Despite many disguises and bluffs perhaps she had never stopped wanting chaos.” A brief excerpt from Zadie Smith’s NW, her first novel in seven years. (Written on an old Smith-Corona portable typewriter on loan from the generous Tayari Jones, photographed at the Penguin Press offices.)

thepenguinpress:

“There is a connection between boredom and the desire for chaos. Despite many disguises and bluffs perhaps she had never stopped wanting chaos.”

A brief excerpt from Zadie Smith’s NW, her first novel in seven years.

(Written on an old Smith-Corona portable typewriter on loan from the generous Tayari Jones, photographed at the Penguin Press offices.)

Source: us.penguingroup.com
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