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
“In this sharp, engaging satire, beauty’s only skin-deep, but funny cuts to the bone.” —Kirkus Reviews
Having hit bestseller lists from the New York Times to the San Francisco Chronicle, 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.
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
“In this sharp, engaging satire, beauty’s only skin-deep, but funny cuts to the bone.” —Kirkus Reviews
Having hit bestseller lists from the New York Times to the San Francisco Chronicle, 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.
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Vibrant depictions of contemporary multicultural London and nuanced examinations of cultural identity, race, and family dynamics mark the fiction and non-fiction of one of contemporary literature's most distinctive voices. Zadie Smith emerged onto the literary scene with her acclaimed debut novel White Teeth, setting a high standard for contemporary social realism and multi-generational storytelling.
Born Sadie Smith in North London in 1975 to an English father and a Jamaican mother, Zadie Smith attended Hampstead School and later read English at Cambridge, graduating in 1997. While still an undergraduate student at age 21, she submitted an eighty-page partial manuscript that sparked significant publisher interest. Her debut novel, White Teeth, was published in 2000 to widespread critical success and became an immediate best-seller, winning the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. Alongside her fiction career, Smith has served in academia, becoming a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty at New York University in September 2010, and has established herself as an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer.
Smith's literary work is celebrated for its savvy humor, snappy dialogue, and eccentric, finely drawn characters. Her writing consistently explores complex themes surrounding race, religion, personal identity, and the intersection of diverse cultures within urban environments. Transitioning seamlessly between fiction and critical essays, Smith's prose frequently reflects on art, morality, social change, and human relationships with intellectual depth and accessible wit.
3 books in catalog
Vibrant depictions of contemporary multicultural London and nuanced examinations of cultural identity, race, and family dynamics mark the fiction and non-fiction of one of contemporary literature's most distinctive voices. Zadie Smith emerged onto the literary scene with her acclaimed debut novel White Teeth, setting a high standard for contemporary social realism and multi-generational storytelling.
Born Sadie Smith in North London in 1975 to an English father and a Jamaican mother, Zadie Smith attended Hampstead School and later read English at Cambridge, graduating in 1997. While still an undergraduate student at age 21, she submitted an eighty-page partial manuscript that sparked significant publisher interest. Her debut novel, White Teeth, was published in 2000 to widespread critical success and became an immediate best-seller, winning the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. Alongside her fiction career, Smith has served in academia, becoming a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty at New York University in September 2010, and has established herself as an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer.
Smith's literary work is celebrated for its savvy humor, snappy dialogue, and eccentric, finely drawn characters. Her writing consistently explores complex themes surrounding race, religion, personal identity, and the intersection of diverse cultures within urban environments. Transitioning seamlessly between fiction and critical essays, Smith's prose frequently reflects on art, morality, social change, and human relationships with intellectual depth and accessible wit.
