On Beauty is the latest novel by Zadie Smith. After the disappointing The Autograph Man, it has been great to read something at least as good as her first novel White Teeth. In On Beauty Zadie Smith takes on the Campus novel genre and, inspired by EM Forster and Nabokov, tells the story of two feuding academic families. This book has laugh out moments but also raises some serious points about love, friendship, families, art, race, politics. It is rich in dialogue and Smith has a very good ear for teenage speak from both sides of the Atlantic.
For me the most exciting thing about Zadie Smith is not the fact that she's written at least two seriously good books but that her literay career has only just begun. I look forward to future books by this accomplished writer.
Other books I have read by this author: White Teeth and The Autograph Man.
This book is a novel about a retired British doctor who is an amateur scholar on Gustave Flaubert. In fact, one learns a lot about the author of Madame Bovary by reading it. At times funny, always informed, this novel is a triumph. 
On Beauty is the latest novel by Zadie Smith. After the disappointing The Autograph Man, it has been great to read something at least as good as her first novel White Teeth. In On Beauty Zadie Smith takes on the Campus novel genre and, inspired by EM Forster and Nabokov, tells the story of two feuding academic families. 
The Hours is a novel by America author Micheal Cunningham. The book picks up on Virginia Woolf's best-known novel Mrs Dalloway. It fictionalises a day in the life of the modernist writer when she starts writing Mrs Dalloway and intertwines this narrative with a day in the lives of two other women: Clarissa Vaughan who is organising a party for a dying friend in 1990s Manhattan and Laura Brown who is getting ready for her husband's birthday in 1940s Los Angeles. 
