Zadie Smith: Valkoiset hampaat

Zadie Smith: Valkoiset hampaat (White Teeth 2001)
Ljudbok (22 h 41 min, BookBeat)

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 Jamaican half his age, quite literally gives Archie a second lease on life, and produces Irie. Samad’s late-in-life arranged marriage, 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.