On Beauty

One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction, another bestselling masterwork from the celebrated author of Swing Time and White Teeth

"Thoroughly original . . . A novel that is as affecting as it is entertaining, as provocative as it is humane." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

This wise, hilarious novel reminds us why Zadie Smith has rocketed to literary stardom. On Beauty is the story of an interracial family living in the university town of Wellington, Massachusetts, whose misadventures in the culture wars--on both sides of the Atlantic--serve to skewer everything from family life to political correctness to the combustive collision between the personal and the political. Full of dead-on wit and relentlessly funny, this tour de force confirms Zadie Smith's reputation as a major literary talent.

Author: Zadie Smith
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 09/01/2006
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780143037743

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 09/17/2006 pg. 32
Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2008 pg. 100
Entertainment Weekly 12/11/2009 pg. 80
Newsweek 12/21/2009 pg. 74
Village Voice 12/23/2009 pg. 28

About the Author
Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW, Swing Time, and The Fraud; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia; four collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free, Intimations, and Dead and Alive; a collection of short stories, Grand Union; and a play, The Wife of Willesden, adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London, where she still lives.