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Examines beauty in life's flawed personal tapestry.

"On Beauty" could resonate with you because it tackles family dynamics and personal ideologies head-on, blending humor with piercing insight. Zadie Smith's eloquent prose might just challenge your perspectives on love and identity, while the engaging Belsey family's trials and tribulations provide a multifaceted look at contemporary life that's both intellectually stimulating and emotionally rewarding.

  • Booker Prize Nominee (2005)
  • Orange Prize for Fiction (2006)
  • Somerset Maugham Award (2006)
  • Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2006)
  • Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Nominee for Comic Fiction (2006)
  • Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in South Asia and Europe (2006)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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On Beauty

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ISBN: 9780241989166
Authors: Zadie Smith
Publisher: Penguin
Date of Publication: 2020-07-23
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Drama, Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Goodreads rating: 3.77
(rated by 83661 readers)

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Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three children passionately pursue their own paths: Levi quests after authentic blackness, Zora believes that intellectuals can redeem everybody, and Jerome struggles to be a believer in a family of strict atheists. Faced with the oppressive enthusiasms of his children, Howard feels that the first two acts of his life are over and he has no clear plans for the finale. Or the encore. Then Jerome, Howard's older son, falls for Victoria, the stunning daughter of the right-wing icon Monty Kipps, and the two families find themselves thrown together in a beautiful corner of America, enacting a cultural and personal war against the background of real wars that they barely register. An infidelity, a death, and a legacy set in motion a chain of events that sees all parties forced to examine the unarticulated assumptions which underpin their lives. How do you choose the work on which to spend your life? Why do you love the people you love? Do you really believe what you claim to? And what is the beautiful thing, and how far will you go to get it? Set on both sides of the Atlantic, Zad
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Examines beauty in life's flawed personal tapestry.

"On Beauty" could resonate with you because it tackles family dynamics and personal ideologies head-on, blending humor with piercing insight. Zadie Smith's eloquent prose might just challenge your perspectives on love and identity, while the engaging Belsey family's trials and tribulations provide a multifaceted look at contemporary life that's both intellectually stimulating and emotionally rewarding.

  • Booker Prize Nominee (2005)
  • Orange Prize for Fiction (2006)
  • Somerset Maugham Award (2006)
  • Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2006)
  • Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Nominee for Comic Fiction (2006)
  • Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in South Asia and Europe (2006)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.