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020			_a9780141002606 (pbk.)
040			_aIN-BhIIT
041			_aeng
082			_a823.914 _bSMI/W
100			_aSmith, Zadie _eAuthor _927768
245			_aWhite teeth / _cZadie Smith
260			_aNew Delhi : _bPenguin, _c2000.
300			_ax, 541 p. : _bill. ; _c19 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aZadie 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.
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