01565nam a22002177a 4500 GB1269 IN-BhIIT 20260508094005.0 260508b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780141002606 (pbk.) IN-BhIIT eng 823.914 SMI/W Smith, Zadie Author 27768 White teeth / Zadie Smith New Delhi : Penguin, 2000. x, 541 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. GB 15530 15530 0 0 0 0 GEN CLIITBBS CLIITBBS 2026-05-08 0 823.914 SMI/W GB1269 2026-05-08 09:40:36 2026-05-08 GEN