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Zadie Smith on race in fiction
Zadie Smith, author of the much-anticipated new novel ‘NW’, speaks to Open Book’s Mariella Frostrup. In this clip Smith discusses race in fiction, and how it is difficult to get readers ‘to see that people of colour are not strange or exotic in themselves or to themselves’.
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