The title highlights that the storyline would suggest some epistemological idea on beauty from objective and subjective point of views and it does through different characters. The novel is inspired by the author’s autobiographical essence as Smith wrote the story from her own experience as a visiting fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute. From an epistemological view, the novel shows concepts of morality, racism, apartheid, human psychology, constant construction and destruction of relationships and professional jealousy. Smith plans herself for an impressive work of fiction that bargains a style flexible enough to place divergent principles in one single podium between the families, the Belseys and the Kipps in an American university town. The campus novel, On Beauty (2005)by Zadie Smith, is marked as a clever reflection of E.M.Forster’s Howards End (1910). a tremendously good read.Campus Novel Book Review: Zadie Smith’s On Beauty (2005) One of the best of the year, a splendid treat. 'Smith's specialty is her ability to render the new world, in its vibrant multiculturalism, with a kind of dancing, daring joy.

'In this sharp, engaging satire, beauty's only skin-deep, but funny cuts to the bone.' - Kirkus Reviews As good as she is with big ideas, Smith is even stronger at capturing family dynamics, the heartbreak of broken trust as well as the lovely connections between siblings. In tackling grown-up issues of marriage, adultery, race, class, liberalism and aesthetics, she thrillingly balances engaging ideas with equally engaging characters. 'Oh happy day when a writer as gifted as Zadie Smith fulfills her early promise with a novel as accomplished, substantive and penetrating as On Beauty. Smith possesses a captivating authorial voice-at once authoritative and nonchalant, and capacious enough to accommodate high moral seriousness, laid-back humor and virtually everything in between-and in these pages, she uses that voice to enormous effect, giving us that rare thing: a novel that is as affecting as it is entertaining, as provocative as it is humane.' - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times thoroughly original tale about families and generational change, about race and multiculturalism in millennial America, about love and identity and the ways they are affected by the passage of time. Named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, Time, and Publishers Weekly, A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Denver Post, and Publishers Weeklybestseller, A Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Atlantic Monthly, Newsday, Christian Science Monitor, and Minneapolis Star Tribune Best Book of the Year, and Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize

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