by Zadie Smith · La Magrana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478718061
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«Sobre la bellesa» is the contemporary fiction novel by Zadie Smith, published by La Magrana in paperback (448 pages, in Catalan).
Two New England families, the liberal Belseys and the conservative Kipps, see their lives collide when Monty Kipps starts teaching at Wellington College. The novel follows the marriage of Howard Belsey and Kiki Simmonds, with three teenage children, and explores racial conflict, family and marriage, in homage to 'Howard's End' by E. M. Forster.
Catalan translation of the original novel 'On Beauty', published in 2005. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2005 and winner of the Orange Prize 2006.
For its themes of race, family and marriage, it is a common read in literary fiction book clubs.
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.
