by Zadie Smith · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141026664
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«On Beauty» is Zadie Smith's novel of manners, published by Penguin in paperback (445 pages, in English).
«On Beauty» pits two families, the Belseys and the Kippses, against each other when Jerome, the Belseys' eldest son, falls for Victoria, the daughter of conservative Monty Kipps. Between New England and London, ideological clashes and thwarted romances fuel a satire on love, family, and the pursuit of beauty in contemporary life.
Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Somerset Maugham Award, and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
It is a work for readers of contemporary literary fiction and book clubs, with an interest in family drama, identity, and social critique.
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.
