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White Teeth: A Novel
by Zadie Smith
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0375703861
- ISBN 13
- 9780375703867
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About This Item
New York: Vintage International, June 2001. Paperback. Fine. Crease to top inch of spine, otherwise pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 448 pages. Winner of the Whitbread Award. 2001.
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. 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.
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. 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.
Synopsis
White Teeth is a 2000 novel by the British author Zadie Smith. It focuses on the later lives of two wartime friends - the Bangladeshi Samad Iqbal and the Englishman Archie Jones, and their families in London. The book won multiple honors, including the 2000 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, the 2000 Whitbread Book Award in category best first novel, the Guardian First Book Award, the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize, and the Betty Trask Award.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000003174
- Title
- White Teeth: A Novel
- Author
- Zadie Smith
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0375703861
- ISBN 13
- 9780375703867
- Publisher
- Vintage International
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- June 2001
- Keywords
- fiction, domestic fiction, humor, psychological fiction, Whitbread Award, assimilation, ethnic relations, fate, fatalism, genetic engineering, immigrants, interracial marriage, male friendship, race relations, sociology, London, England, Britain
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Humor, Comedy, Satire, Funny stuff; Britain; Race, Racism, Prejudice; Domestic and Family Fiction;
- Size
- 8vo
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