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.
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.
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這是一本英國小說,作者查蒂史密斯,24歲時寫的這部處女作就得瞭N多奬,不可思議。 讀到第二章,感覺作者熟讀聖經和馬太福音,因為她總是引用裏麵的文字,給人物設置傳教士的故事情節。 這是一本樸實的小說,內容涉及傢庭和人生。本書35萬字。2000年英文版問世,2008年中文版齣...
評分白牙 (查蒂•史密斯(Zadie Smith)) - 您在位置 #106-107的標注 | 添加於 2016年4月28日星期四 下午3:41:18 這就是離婚:嚮你不再愛的人要迴用不著的東西。 ========== 白牙 (查蒂•史密斯(Zadie Smith)) - 您在位置 #87-89的標注 | 添加於 2016年4月28日星期四 下午3:41:3...
評分近年來,少數民族裔作傢開始吃香,吸引瞭評論界的眼球。 應該是在這個時代,人們開始關注的問題 各種文化的融閤,可是實際上基本是弱勢文化被強勢文化吞沒 這種潮流是無法阻擋的 曆史的必然 這些little men的無奈與掙紮貫穿瞭他們的一生,而這種無奈一直在延續,延續到下一代,...
評分到底該怎麼走,到底該不該融入我們所在的這個社會?離經判道還是中規中矩?其實最終大傢都歸於平凡而普通罷瞭.
評分不得不說Zadie很神奇。首先這個名字就很離經叛道得對不起Smith這個普普通通的姓氏。她本名是Sadie,擅自改成Zadie的。現行的翻譯都不好聽。通行的是“紮迪”。南海齣版公司用的是“查蒂”,更離譜瞭。 2000年,她寫齣瞭《白牙》(White Teeth)。主劇情從1974(她還沒齣生!...
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評分written 10 years ago. still incredibly relevant today. prophesy? or simply a problem never to be solved? will it then resolve on its own?
評分Readable.
評分a book of both fun and thinking. a bit surreal in the end i think~ quite enjoyed it,though so long. quite big and ingenious for a 21 year-old. admiring her. but still not deep enough
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