White teeth
Book |
Penguin Books,
London ;
2001.
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Branch | Call Number | Location | Holdable? | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Welland Main | FIC Smith | Fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
About
The book's home base is a scrubby North London borough, where we encounter Smith's unlikely heroes: prevaricating Archie Jones and intemperate Samad Iqbal, who served together in the so-called Buggered Battalion during World War II. In the ensuing decades, both have gone forth and multiplied: Archie marries beautiful, bucktoothed Clara--who's on the run from her Jehovah's Witness mother--and fathers a daughter. Samad marries stroppy Alsana, who gives birth to twin sons. Here is multiculturalism in its most elemental form: "Children with first and last names on a direct collision course. Names that secrete within them mass exodus, cramped boats and planes, cold arrivals, medical checks." Big questions demand boldly drawn characters. Zadie Smith's aren't heroic, just real: warm, funny, misguided, and entirely familiar. Reading their conversations is like eavesdropping. Even a simple exchange between Alsana and Clara about their pregnancies has a comical ring of truth
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Details
- ISBN: 9780375703867 (2001 Vintage International trade pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780140276336 (Penguin trade pbk.)
- ISBN: 0241141028 (trade paperback)
- ISBN: 024113997X
- Physical Description: 541 p. ; 20 cm.print
- Publisher: London ; Toronto, Ont., Penguin Books, 2001.
- General Note: Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction.Winner of the Guardian First Book Award.Winner of the 2000 Whitbread First Novel Award.
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Awards Note:
Winner of the 2000 Whitbread First Novel Award.Winner of the Guardian First Book Award.Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction.