Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize for fiction, anotherbestselling masterworkfrom the celebrated author of White Teeth
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...

Zadie Smith's dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis. But the truth is that Zadie Smith's voice is remarkably, fluently, and altogether wonderfully her own.

At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of England's irrevocable transformation. A second marriage to Clara Bowden, a beautiful, albeit tooth-challenged, Jamaican half his age, quite...

The debut last year of this newest addition to the Best American series was an instant hit with readers of all ages. Eggers will be editing the volume annually, choosing the finest, most interesting, and least expected fiction, nonfiction, humor, alternative comics, and more.

One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2012
Set in northwest London, Zadie Smith s brilliant tragicomic novel follows four locals Leah, Natalie, Felix, and Nathan as they try to make adult lives outside of Caldwell, the council estate of their childhood. In private houses and public parks, at work and at play, these Londoners inhabita complicated place, as beautiful as it is brutal, where the thoroughfares hide the back alleys and taking the high road can sometimes lead you to a dead end. Depicting the modern urban zone familiar to city-dwellers everywhere...