by Zadie Smith · Penguin Group(CA) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141019451
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«On Beauty» is the literary fiction novel by Zadie Smith, published by Penguin Group(CA) in paperback (464 pages, in English).
The Belseys, an interracial family from Wellington (Massachusetts), and the Kippses, their rivals, clash in a personal, ideological and academic duel between New England and London. Doomed romances, moral ideals and political correctness serve to portray with irony family life and the clash between the personal and the political.
Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2006 and finalist for the Man Booker Prize in 2005. The novel was originally published in 2005; this edition appeared in 2006.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and book clubs, with a social satire full of humor and irony.
Zadie Smith is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, White Teeth, published in 2000, was an immediate best-seller and won a number of awards. Smith became a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty of New York University in September 2010.
