White teeth
a novel
by Zadie Smith, Jenny Sterlin, and Ana María de la Fuente Suárez
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"Epic and intimate, hilarious and poignant, White Teeth is the story of two North London families - one headed by Archie, the other by Archie's best friend, a Muslim Bengali named Samad Iqbal. Pals since they served together in World War II, Archie and Samad are a decidedly unlikely pair. Plodding Archie is typical in every way until he marries Clara, a beautiful, toothless Jamaican woman half his age, and the couple have a daughter named Iric (the Jamaican word for "no problem").
Samad - devoutly Muslim, hopelessly "foreign" - weds the feisty and always suspicious Alsana in a prearranged union. They have twin sons named Millat and Magid, one a pot-smoking punk-cum-militant Muslim and the other an insufferable science nerd. The riotous and tortured histories of the Joneses and the Iqbals are fundamentally intertwined, capturing an empire's worth of cultural identity, history, and hope."--BOOK JACKET.
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Fiction, Immigrants, Male friendship, Ethnic relations, Muslim families, Jamaicans, Social conditions, Genetic engineering, Interracial marriage, Multiculturalism, Race relations, Fate and fatalism, Assimilation (Sociology), Domestic fiction, Literature, open_syllabus_project, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Large type books, London (england), fiction, Fiction, family life, Friendship, fiction, New York Times reviewed, 18.05 English literature, Fiction, family life, general, Fiction, religious, Powieść angielska, Tłumaczenia polskie, Fiction, psychological, Veteran, Männerfreundschaft, Familienkonflikt, Roman, Ausgabe, Englisch, Belletristische Darstellung, Immigrants--great britain--fiction, Pr6069.m59 w47 2000b, 823.914Places
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Dientes Blancos / White Teeth (Narrativa (Salamandra Publisher).)
June 30, 2005, Salamandra
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March 1, 2001, Droemersche Verlagsanstalt Th. Knaur Nachf., GmbH & Co.
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One of the most talked about fictional debuts of recent years, WHITE TEETH is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of coming back and biting you on the ankle, it is a life-affirming, riotous must-read of a book.
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