

United Kingdom seems closely related to his capital city, London. If you have ever taken a ride back home on a London night bus, from the centre of town to one of the outer boroughs, you will know that it is an experience that can be, by turns, rowdy, lyrical, melancholy, heartwarming and hair raising Reading Zadie Smith’s new novel, “NW”, is very much like getting onto one of those night buses (Shaw, 2013). The surroundings in this an important part of the notion of multiculturality they talk about: Nw is set in the north-western part of London. Identity of a second generation in a society unaware of its selfishness. The multicultural literature responds to the necessity of explaining the Hardly ever they share and exchange something more than the city they live in. London seems the best example for betterĮxplaining these differences: different cultures share the same territory, bur The best in our societies, but we can observe the reality and transpose it into In intercultural communities, this exchange happens and thereĪn alternation of immersion in different cultures.

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Terminology like “multiculturalism” and “interculturalism”. Multiculturalism, I want to specify some differences about the use of Issue and critically discuss Smith’s particular take on it. Like most of Smith’s work, NW engages with the issue of multiculturalism.
