On Beauty

Resumen del libro

Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering Professor at Wellington 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, and 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. Then Jerome, Howard's oldest son, falls for Victoria, the stunning daughter of the right-wing icon Monty Kipps.

Increasingly, 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...

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Zadie Smith x{0026}lt;/B (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 x{0026}lt;I The New Yorker x{0026}lt;/I y en x{0026}lt;I The New York Review of Booksx{0026}lt;/I . En Salamandra ha publicado las novelas x{0026}lt;I Dientes blancosx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El cazador de autógrafosx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Sobre la bellezax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I NW Londonx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Tiempos de swingx{0026}lt;/I , los ensayos x{0026}lt;I Cambiar de ideax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Contemplaciones x{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Con total libertadx{0026}lt;/I , y las recopilaciones de relatos x{0026}lt;I El libro de los otrosx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Grand Unionx{0026}lt;/I .x{0026}lt;/P