White teeth
by Zadie Smith, Jenny Sterlin, and Ana María de la Fuente Suárez
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In the author's words, this is "an attempt at a comic family epic of Little England into which an explosion of ethnic colour is injected", telling the story of three families, one Indian, one white, one mixed, in North London and Oxford from World War 2 to now.
White teeth tells the story of three families, one Indian, one white, one mixed, in London and Oxford from World War II to the present. It spans 25 years of two families' assimilation in North London, home of the book's two unlikely heroes: prevaricating Archie Jones and intemperate Samad Iqbal. They met in the Second World War and have been best friends ever since. The Joneses and the Iqbals are an unlikely pairing of families, but their destinies distil the British Empire's history and hopes into a dazzling melange that is a pure joy to read.
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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, 823.914, Assimilation (sociology), 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, New york times reviewed, 18.05 english literaturePlaces
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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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Originally published: London : Hamish Hamilton, 2000.
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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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