by Zadie Smith · Goldmann TB · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783442463879
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«Von der Schönheit» is the novel by Zadie Smith, published by Goldmann TB in paperback (512 pages, in German).
Art history professor Howard Belsey, an Englishman based in Boston, clashes with Monty Kipps, a conservative Rembrandt expert. When his son Jerome falls in love with Kipps's daughter, both families become entangled in erotic, intellectual and domestic conflicts. A satirical novel about class, race and politics between England and the United States.
Original title: «On Beauty». Translation by Marcus Ingendaay. The work was originally published in 2005; this edition, in 2008.
For readers of literary fiction with an interest in social and academic satire; winner of the 2006 Orange Prize and nominated for the Booker Prize.
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.
