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2007 Longlist

On Beauty

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

Set on both sides of the Atlantic, Zadie Smith’s third novel is a brilliant and very funny look at family life, marriage, the collision of the personal and political, and an honest look at people’s self-deceptions.
Howard Belsey is an Englishman abroad, an academic teaching in a small college town in New England. Whilst he struggles to revive his passion for his African-American wife Kiki, his three teenage children are seeking loves, ideals and commitments of their own. And after Howard’s disastrous affair with a colleague, his sensitive eldest son Jerome escapes to London for the holidays, where he defies everything the Belseys represent by going to work for Trinidadian right-wing academic and pundit, Monty Kipps. Jerome falls for Monty’s beautiful, capricious daughter, Victoria, but their short-lived romance has long-lasting consequences, drawing these very different families into each other’s lives…

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Zadie
Smith

Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW, and Swing Time, as well as a collection of essays, Changing My Mind.

Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW, and Swing Time, as well as a collection of essays, Changing My Mind.

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