On Beauty

Resumen del libro

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEFrom the acclaimed author of Swing Time, White Teeth and Grand Union, discover a brilliantly funny and deeply moving story about love and familyWhy 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

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