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 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.
非常精彩,可惜的是文笔不佳,连评论都写不来,写几句,以纪念看完这本书。 三个家庭,或移民,或底层,或懦弱,或心有不甘,都在寻求自身的存在感,归属感,阿吉,一生碌碌无为,所有决定都是靠掷硬币来决定,(话说他为啥没杀死博士,还两次救他,有待再看一下)。 萨马德,...
评分近年来,少数民族裔作家开始吃香,吸引了评论界的眼球。 应该是在这个时代,人们开始关注的问题 各种文化的融合,可是实际上基本是弱势文化被强势文化吞没 这种潮流是无法阻挡的 历史的必然 这些little men的无奈与挣扎贯穿了他们的一生,而这种无奈一直在延续,延续到下一代,...
评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...
传说中的“歇斯底里现实主义”。的确,过分庞杂、枝蔓横生的叙述语言,掩盖不了作品本质上的单薄。为什么不写成短篇小说?
评分Readable.
评分Captures the multi-culturalism of London and the clash of values between the first and second generation of immigrants exceptionally well.
评分三星半
评分不是很好看,作者心比天高奈何文笔太差,不介意内容的人可以看看了解一下思想
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