White Teeth

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.

出版者:Penguin Books Ltd

作者:Zadie Smith

页数:560

出版时间:2001-01-25

价格:GBP 7.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780140276336

图书标签:ZadieSmith英文原版小说英国文学英文英国文学外国文学

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.

读后感

今天因为一些别的原因，特意在网上把Zadie所有能看到的小说试读都读了一遍，对这个当红作家算是有了一个大概的了解。闲聊几句读后感。 Zadie可能是因为近年来一直在大学当写作课老师的缘故，太学术气了，所以除了她刚毕业时写的处女作《白牙》还有点精彩的看头，后来的小说都一...  

不得不说Zadie很神奇。首先这个名字就很离经叛道得对不起Smith这个普普通通的姓氏。她本名是Sadie，擅自改成Zadie的。现行的翻译都不好听。通行的是“扎迪”。南海出版公司用的是“查蒂”，更离谱了。 2000年，她写出了《白牙》（White Teeth）。主剧情从1974（她还没出生！...  

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，...  

先不要觉得我的题目很奇怪，可能我也开始用夏尔芬式的思维在思考问题了吧。一直以来，少数族裔的作家们都在试图描写他们在异乡的生存困境和思维困境，以及一种恐惧却又不得不被同化的进程。但是没有一部作品，像这部大开本的三百多页的巨制一样，表现的巨细靡遗，以至于读来心...

白牙 (查蒂•史密斯(Zadie Smith)) - 您在位置 #106-107的标注 | 添加于 2016年4月28日星期四 下午3:41:18 这就是离婚：向你不再爱的人要回用不着的东西。 ========== 白牙 (查蒂•史密斯(Zadie Smith)) - 您在位置 #87-89的标注 | 添加于 2016年4月28日星期四 下午3:41:3...  

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感觉作者野心很大，涉及了很多重要的话题，但是人物的塑造欠火候，恨不起来，爱不起来，也可怜不起来，所以显得太冗长了。

会是一个很好的电影剧本啊，冲突好新，但文字感觉生涩、杂乱。

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写得太棒了！很有抱负的一本书，有趣，复杂，有很多关于英国移民文化值得咀嚼的ideas.