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Smith, Zadie
White teeth / Zadie Smith
London : Penguin books, 2017
Penguin essentials
Titolo e contributi: White teeth / Zadie Smith
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin books, 2017
Descrizione fisica:
X, [2], 541 p. ; 18 cm
Serie: Penguin essentials
ISBN: 9780241981399
Data:2017
Lingua:
Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese:
xx
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Abstract:
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.