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Epic in scale and intimate in approach, White Teeth is an ambitious novel. Genetics, eugenics, gender, race, class and history are the book's themes but Zadie Smith is gifted with the wit and inventiveness to make these weighty ideas seem effortlessly light.
The story travels through Jamaica, Turkey, Bangladesh and India but ends up in a scrubby North London borough, home of the book's two unlikely heroes: prevaricating Archie Jones and intemperate Samad Iqbal. They met in the Second World War, as part of a "Buggered Battalion" and have been best friends ever since. Archie marries beautiful, buck-toothed Clara, who's on the run from her Jehovah's Witness mother, and they have a daughter, Irie. Samad marries stroppy Alsana and they have twin sons: "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. A simple scene, Alsana and Clara chatting about their pregnancies in the park: "A woman has to have the private things--a husband needn't be involved in body business, in a lady's ... parts."
Samad's rant about his sons--"They have both lost their way. Strayed so far from what I had intended for them. No doubt they will both marry white women called Sheila and put me in an early grave--acutely displays "the immigrant fears--dissolution, disappearance" but it also gets to the very heart of Samad.
White Teeth is a joy to read. It teems with life and exuberence and has enough cleverness and irreverent seriousness to give it bite. --Eithne Farry --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW, and Swing Time, as well as two collections of essays, Changing My Mind and Feel Free. Zadie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. White Teeth won multiple literary awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. On Beauty was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and NW was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Epic!
评分Readable.
评分感觉作者野心很大,涉及了很多重要的话题,但是人物的塑造欠火候,恨不起来,爱不起来,也可怜不起来,所以显得太冗长了。
评分Epic!
评分感觉作者野心很大,涉及了很多重要的话题,但是人物的塑造欠火候,恨不起来,爱不起来,也可怜不起来,所以显得太冗长了。
今天因为一些别的原因,特意在网上把Zadie所有能看到的小说试读都读了一遍,对这个当红作家算是有了一个大概的了解。闲聊几句读后感。 Zadie可能是因为近年来一直在大学当写作课老师的缘故,太学术气了,所以除了她刚毕业时写的处女作《白牙》还有点精彩的看头,后来的小说都一...
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评分 评分 评分有时看相册,会发现自己对相册中的那个多年前的自己的形象忘得一干二净,自己总结为变化太大的缘故。初逢《白牙》于图书大厦的六楼,没觉得自己之前会对此类书感兴趣,买下它纯属机缘巧合。回家细读之下,便觉出了味道。 整本书流露出一种英国的文化,他写的不是英国的贵族...
White Teeth pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025