On Beauty

<b><b>One of the <i>New York Times</i>'s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century</b> <p/>Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction another bestselling masterwork from the celebrated author of <i>Swing Time </i>and <i>White Teeth <p/></i>Thoroughly original . . . A novel that is as affecting as it is entertaining as provocative as it is humane. </b>--<b>Michiko Kakutani</b> <b><i>The New York Times</i></b> <p/>This wise hilarious novel reminds us why Zadie Smith has rocketed to literary stardom. <i>On Beauty</i> 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.