WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
From the acclaimed author of Swing Time, White Teeth and Grand Union, discover a brilliantly funny and deeply moving story about love and family
Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful?
Set between New England and London, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the confusions - both personal and political - of our uncertain age are about to be brought close to home: right to the heart of family.
'Ambitious, hugely impressive, beautifully observed' Guardian
SMITH ZADIE
Zadie Smith Londres, 1975 estudió Filología Inglesa en la Universidad de Cambridge. Miembro de la Royal Society of Literature y la American Academy of Arts and Letters, es profesora de narrativa en la Universidad de Nueva York y colabora habitualmente en The New Yorker y en The New York Review of Books. En Salamandra ha publicado las novelas Dientes blancos, El cazador de autógrafos, Sobre la belleza, NW London y Tiempos de swing, los ensayos Cambiar de idea, Contemplaciones y Con total libertad, y las recopilaciones de relatos El libro de los otros y Grand Union.
