About beauty

In his new novel, Zedi Smith tells about two university professors-enemies, BelSI and Fruit, whose families are closely connected with each other. This is the comedy of provisions, unfolding in academic intercultural space, is as bright as the first novel Smith "White Teeth".
In the house of BelSi, in Boston, they confess the ideas of equality of all people, the undisputed superiority of democracy, all fashionable theories of art, neglect the idea of ​​wealth and despise politics. In the House of Kipsi, they talk about real politics, about money, about the economy, declare the equality of the myth, and multiculturalism - fashionable fiction. This confrontation leads to many tragicomic events ...
This is a novel about love, about understanding that there is beauty.
In 2006, Zedi Smith received a Orange award Orange (Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction) - one of the most prestigious awards in the English-speaking world