White Teeth: A Novel


Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
25
Narrator
5
Release Date
April 24, 2018
Duration
18 hours 38 minutes
Summary
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The blockbuster debut novel from “a preternaturally gifted” writer (The New York Times) and author of On Beauty and Swing Time—set against London's racial and cultural tapestry, reveling in the ecstatic hodgepodge of modern life, flirting with disaster, and embracing the comedy of daily existence.

One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

Zadie Smith’s dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis. But the truth is that Zadie Smith’s voice is remarkably, fluently, and altogether wonderfully her own.

At the center of this invigorating 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, and a renewed, if selective, submission to his Islamic faith. 

“[White Teeth] is, like the London it portrays, a restless hybrid of voices, tones, and textures…with a raucous energy and confidence.” —The New York Times Book Review
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Cathy C.

Too many characters without a connecting story to draw you in. Many scenes felt irrelevant. I would not recommend this book. I did enjoy the narrators.

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Carrie L.

As a prolific reader but rare reviewer, I wanted to express how much I loved this book. It was a book I did not pick up when initially published to rave reviews. It will now forever be one of favorites. It is a rich and complex story and reminds me of One Hundred Years of Solitude, another of my favorites. Like Gabriel García Márquez, Zadie Smith writes beautifully of the comic and harsh reality of life and family, past and present, hope and reconciliation. If you aren’t interested in reading about those facets of life, pick it up for a story about British culture in post WWII - the turn of the millennium. A great story.

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