Genres: Belletristik
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE From the acclaimed author of Swing Time, White Teeth and Grand Union, discover a brilliantly funny and deeply moving story about love and family Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful? Set between New England and London, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the confusions - both personal and political - of our uncertain age are about to be brought close to home: right to the heart of family. 'Ambitious, hugely impressive, beautifully observed' Guardian
Language
en
Published on
23/07/2020
Pages
464
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780241989166
Themen Interracial relationshipsFamily dynamicsIdentityCultural differencesLove and betrayalSocial classParent-child relationshipsAcademic lifeMulticulturalismComing of ageLoveFamilyRace and Ethnicity
StimmungHumorous, Reflective
HumorOccasional Humor
RomantikMajor Subplot
Explizite SzenenSuggestive Themes
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