White Teeth Paperback | Pages: 448 pages

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Original Title:	White Teeth
ISBN:	0375703861 (ISBN13: 9780375703867)
Edition Language:	English URL https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/169680/white-teeth-by-zadie-smith/
Characters:	Alfred Archibald Jones, Samad Miah Iqbal, Clara Bowden, Alsana Begum, Irie Ambrosia Jones, Millat Zulfikar Iqbal, Hortense Bowden, Mr Topps, Joyce Chalfen, Marcus Chalfen, Magid Iqbal, Joshua Chalfen
Setting:	Willesden, North London,1974(United Kingdom)
Literary Awards:	Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2000), Guardian First Book Award (2000), James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2000), Whitbread Award for First Novel (2000), John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Nominee (2000) Puddly Award for Debut Novel (2001), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2000), Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book Overall (2001), Sunday Times/Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award (2001), Betty Trask Award (2001)

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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.

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Title	:	White Teeth
Author	:	Zadie Smith
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 448 pages
Published	:	June 12th 2001 by Vintage (first published April 1st 2000)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Novels. European Literature. British Literature. Literary Fiction. Literature. Adult Fiction

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I'm about a decade late to Zadie Smith's White Teeth, one of those books friends recommended or I picked up at the library then put back and moved on to a different title. My reticence to read the novel revolved around the plethora of book-clubby texts that could best be classified as somewhat patronizing novels about other cultures featuring triumph in the face of great poverty and hardship. I hate these books. But White Teeth turns out be an example of where those novels fail and a sun-surface

Oh Zadie Smith be still my beating heart! I devoured this fabulous novel. Smith is truly a master of plot and her ability to capture the voices of each individual character is inspirational. Never before have I read a novel which such a rich and diverse dramatis personae. I fear that this review is going to become a list of superlatives so I'll quell it here by saying, I loved this and I need to read more Smith now.

There need to be more books like this in the world. Little bit cocky, little bit sharp, written within my lifetime by someone with little to no representation in the halls of esteemed literature by means of race and gender and what have you and does not give a flying fuck about it. The setting may be the well worn island of merry old 20th century England for the most part, but the reality is that of the 21st. Smorgasbord where white men get as proper a representation in the wider plain of

These days, it feels to me like you make a devil's pact when you walk into this country. You hand over your passport at the check-in, you get stamped, you want to make a little money, get yourself started... but you mean to go back! Who would want to stay? Cold, wet, miserable; terrible food, dreadful newspapers - who would want to stay? In a place where you are never welcomed, only tolerated. Just tolerated. Like you are an animal finally house-trained.Despite everything subsequent in Zadie's

Phew, I was exhausted after finishing this book.Faith, race, gender, history, and culture in three North London families are turned upside down, questioned, dissected and turned into a tragic comedy by Zadie Smith.Samad Iqbal and his wife Alsana, the original Benghali immigrants, who often sort their differences out in some feisty backyard wrestling matches while their two twin sons, Magid and Millat, the second generation immigrants, run haywire in their confusion about being British as their

I wanted to give this book three stars, and then two stars. If I could give this book zero stars now, I would. I fucking loathed it. I'm sorry, but Zadie Smith is easily one of the three most pretentious writers I've read in the recent past. I literally have nothing more to say to her than that she tries too hard.