{"product_id":"white-teeth-zadie-smith","title":"White Teeth;  Zadie Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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. Set against London’s racial and cultural tapestry, venturing across the former empire and into the past as it barrels toward the future, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhite Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e revels in the ecstatic hodgepodge of modern life, flirting with disaster, confounding expectations, and embracing the comedy of daily existence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eApril 1, 2000\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eZadie Smith is the author of the novels \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSwing Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, as well as two collections of essays, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eChanging My Mind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFeel Free\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e won multiple literary awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNW\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47798462349634,"sku":"","price":7.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/whiteteeth.jpg?v=1707849469","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/white-teeth-zadie-smith","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}