{"product_id":"white-teeth-9780375703867","title":"White Teeth","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - The blockbuster debut novel from \"a preternaturally gifted\" writer (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) and author of \u003ci\u003eOn Beauty \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSwing Time--\u003c\/i\u003eset 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eZadie 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003e[\u003ci\u003eWhite Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e]\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis, like the London it portrays, a restless hybrid of voices, tones, and textures...with a raucous energy and confidence.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZADIE SMITH is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eWhite Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSwing Time, \u003c\/i\u003eas well as a novella, \u003ci\u003eThe Embassy of Cambodia, \u003c\/i\u003ethree collections of essays, \u003ci\u003eChanging My Mind, Feel Free, and Intimations, \u003c\/i\u003e and a short story collection, \u003ci\u003eGrand Union. \u003c\/i\u003eShe is also the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Other People.\u003c\/i\u003e Smith 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. \u003ci\u003eWhite Teeth \u003c\/i\u003ewon multiple literary awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. \u003ci\u003eOn Beauty \u003c\/i\u003ewas 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 Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50580604715282,"sku":"9780375703867","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3e605a28-76c9-49c0-9d81-447f6bd18023.jpg?v=1732010734","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/white-teeth-9780375703867","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}