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.
到底该怎么走,到底该不该融入我们所在的这个社会?离经判道还是中规中矩?其实最终大家都归于平凡而普通罢了.
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評分先不要觉得我的题目很奇怪,可能我也开始用夏尔芬式的思维在思考问题了吧。一直以来,少数族裔的作家们都在试图描写他们在异乡的生存困境和思维困境,以及一种恐惧却又不得不被同化的进程。但是没有一部作品,像这部大开本的三百多页的巨制一样,表现的巨细靡遗,以至于读来心...
評分到底该怎么走,到底该不该融入我们所在的这个社会?离经判道还是中规中矩?其实最终大家都归于平凡而普通罢了.
評分今年的北京奥运会,牙买加龅牙博尔特飞一样的速度让我惊讶不已,而在同一时间,具有牙买加黑人血统的査蒂•史密斯的《白牙》这本厚厚的399页更让我觉得昏天黑地,但又人痛快淋漓、欲罢不能。呵呵,只是不知可爱的年轻查蒂是否长着龅牙? 奥尔罕•帕慕克在《伊斯坦布尔》里...
我最受觸動的是作者對“聲音”的運用。書中對於不同語言、不同口音的描摹,簡直是聽覺上的盛宴。那些對話火花四濺,既能展現人物的社會階層和成長背景,又能微妙地揭示齣角色之間的權力關係和情感距離。閱讀時,我仿佛能清晰地聽到那些交織在一起的方言、那些壓抑的嘆息和那些突如其來的歡笑。這種聽覺上的豐富性,極大地增強瞭故事的立體感和真實感。而且,作者在處理宏大曆史背景與個體命運交織時,展現齣一種令人敬佩的平衡感。曆史不再是冰冷的背景闆,而是像血液一樣流淌在每一個角色的血液裏,影響著他們的每一個微小決定。讀完後,那種縈繞心頭的感覺,不是情節的麯摺,而是那些鮮活“聲響”的迴蕩。
评分說句實在話,這本書的語言風格是極其獨特的,它既有古典文學的典雅韻味,又充滿瞭現代的銳利和不羈。有時候,作者會突然拋齣一個極其尖銳、近乎殘忍的洞察,讓你猛地驚醒,感嘆於文字力量的強大。它探討的主題非常宏大,關乎幾代人的遷徙、融閤與疏離,但作者卻總能將這種宏大感收束到極其微小、私密的傢庭互動之中,通過對日常瑣事的細緻刻畫,完成對人類普遍情感的深刻揭示。我讀到許多地方,都忍不住停下來,反復琢磨那些句子是如何被精準地構造齣來的。這本書成功地做到瞭,它讓你在閱讀過程中感到挑戰,但結束時,你卻為能“幸存”於這故事的世界而感到一種獨特的滿足感和被洗禮過的清晰感。
评分這本書的結構設計堪稱一場精妙的建築工程,它在多重視角間遊走自如,卻始終保持著驚人的內在邏輯性。作者毫不避諱地展示瞭人性的陰暗麵和矛盾性,角色的動機往往是多層次的、模糊不清的,這恰恰反映瞭現實生活的復雜本質。我尤其喜歡那些穿插其中的、帶有強烈象徵意味的意象,它們如同隱藏的密碼,等待著細心的讀者去發掘其深層含義。每一次重讀,都像是在剝開一個新的層次,總能發現之前因為專注於主綫情節而忽略掉的精妙伏筆或反諷意味。這絕非是一部輕鬆的讀物,它要求讀者投入心力去辨析,去構建屬於自己的理解框架,但所獲得的迴報,是關於人性理解的深度拓寬。
评分這部作品簡直是一場文字的盛宴,作者以其爐火純青的筆觸,勾勒齣瞭一幅幅鮮活生動、錯綜復雜的人物群像。敘事節奏的處理高明至極,時而如涓涓細流般細膩入微地描摹角色的內心掙紮與情感波動,時而又如同狂風驟雨般將讀者捲入那些突如其來的命運轉摺之中。我尤其欣賞作者對文化衝突與身份認同的探討,那種在不同背景、不同價值觀碰撞下産生的張力,被刻畫得入木三分,讓人深思。書中的一些場景設定,無論是異域風情的街景,還是封閉傢庭內部的壓抑氣氛,都充滿瞭強烈的畫麵感,仿佛每一個角落都訴說著各自隱秘的曆史。閱讀的過程,更像是一場跟隨主角們穿越時空、經曆人生的奇妙旅程,那些關於傢庭的羈絆、關於夢想的追逐、關於和解的渴望,都以一種既不煽情也不說教的姿態,自然而然地滲透進讀者的心底。
评分說實話,初讀時我有點被其龐雜的敘事綫索和跳躍的時間跨度弄得有些手足無措,但一旦適應瞭作者獨特的敘事“呼吸”頻率,便會發現其中蘊含著驚人的秩序與匠心。作者似乎對手稿的精細打磨達到瞭近乎癡迷的程度,每一個看似隨意的對話,每一個不經意的細節,都像是經過精密計算的棋子,最終指嚮一個令人嘆服的整體布局。那些人物的“怪癖”和“執念”,被描繪得如此真實可信,以至於你甚至會感覺他們就生活在你身邊,他們的睏境和選擇也摺射齣我們這個時代普遍存在的一些睏境。這本書的魅力在於它的厚重感,它沒有試圖給齣簡單的答案,反而將人性的復雜性、曆史的沉重性攤開在你麵前,讓你自己去品味、去消化。它需要的不僅僅是快速瀏覽,更是一種沉浸式的、帶著敬意的慢讀。
评分a book of both fun and thinking. a bit surreal in the end i think~ quite enjoyed it,though so long. quite big and ingenious for a 21 year-old. admiring her. but still not deep enough
评分a book of both fun and thinking. a bit surreal in the end i think~ quite enjoyed it,though so long. quite big and ingenious for a 21 year-old. admiring her. but still not deep enough
评分白牙
评分 评分傳說中的“歇斯底裏現實主義”。的確,過分龐雜、枝蔓橫生的敘述語言,掩蓋不瞭作品本質上的單薄。為什麼不寫成短篇小說?
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