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.
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...
評分有时看相册,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...
評分近年来,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,...
評分written 10 years ago. still incredibly relevant today. prophesy? or simply a problem never to be solved? will it then resolve on its own?
评分Readable.
评分三星半
评分半自傳體的黑白混血在倫敦,作者因此年少成名
评分寫得太棒瞭!很有抱負的一本書,有趣,復雜,有很多關於英國移民文化值得咀嚼的ideas.
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