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Zadie Smith on race in fiction
Zadie Smith, author of the much-anticipated new novel 鈥楴W鈥�, speaks to Open Book鈥檚 Mariella Frostrup. In this clip Smith discusses race in fiction, and how it is difficult to get readers 鈥榯o see that people of colour are not strange or exotic in themselves or to themselves鈥�.
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