White teeth
Subtitle: a novel
By: Zadie Smith.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
Subjects: Jamaicans -- England -- Fiction; Ethnic relations -- Fiction; Male friendship -- Fiction; Muslim families -- Fiction; London (England) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "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 Irie (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.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: ARCHIE 1974, 1945; title: 1. The Peculiar Second Marriage of Archie Jones, 3; title: 2. Teething Trouble, 23; title: 3. Two Families, 39; title: 4. Three Coming, 57; title: 5. The Root Canals of Alfred Archibald Jones and; title: Samad Miah Iqbal, 71; title: SAMAD 1984, 1857; title: 6. The Temptation of Samad Iqbal, 105; title: 7. Molars, 135; title: 8. Mitosis, 153; title: 9. Mutiny!, 175; title: 10. The Root Canals of Mangal Pande, 203; title: IRIE 1990, 1907; title: 11. The Miseducation of Irie Jones, 221; title: 12. Canines: The Ripping Teeth, 257; title: I3. The Root Canals of Hortense Bowden, 295; title: I4. More English Than the English, 303; title: I5. Chalfenism Versus Bowdenism, 315; title: MAGID, MILLAT, AND MARCUS 1992, 1999; title: I6. The Return of Magid Mahfooz Murshed Mubtasim Iqbal, 343; title: I7. Crisis Talks and Eleventh-Hour Tactics, 361; title: 18. The End of History Versus The Last Man, 387; title: 19. The Final Space, 407; title: 20. Of Mice and Memory, 431.