White teeth
By: Zadie Smith.
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 461
Subjects: Assimilation (Sociology) -- Fiction.; Interracial marriage -- Fiction.; Genetic engineering -- Fiction.; Fate and fatalism -- Fiction.; Ethnic relations -- Fiction.; Male friendship -- Fiction.; Race relations -- Fiction.; Immigrants -- Fiction.; London (England) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: At the centre of this 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 to his Islamic faith.