Name: White Teeth
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Author: Smith, Zadie
ISBN: 9780375703867

Type

Physical Book

Author

Zadie Smith

Publisher

Vintage

Year

2001

Language

English

Pages

464

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.9 x 13.0 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.34 kg.

ISBN

0375703861

ISBN13

9780375703867

Synopsis "White Teeth "

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Set against London's racial and cultural tapestry, venturing across the former empire and into the past as it barrels toward the future, White Teeth revels in the ecstatic hodgepodge of modern life, flirting with disaster, confounding expectations, and embracing the comedy of daily existence. 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 literally gives Archie a second lease on life, and produces Irie, a knowing child whose personality doesn't quite match her name (Jamaican for "no problem"). Samad's late-in-life arranged marriage (he had to wait for his bride to be born), produces twin sons whose separate paths confound Iqbal's every effort to direct them, and a renewed, if selective, submission to his Islamic faith.

Zadie Smith

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Zadie Smith (United Kingdom, 1975) is a British novelist and essayist born in London, daughter of a Jamaican mother and an English father. Her first novel, White Teeth (2000), catapulted her to international recognition and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, among other awards. Other notable works include On Beauty (a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction), NW, and Swing Time. Smith is a member of the Royal Society of Literature and a professor of creative writing at New York University.

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