{"product_id":"white-teeth","title":"White Teeth - A Novel (Vintage International)","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Updated for the 25th Anniversary with a new introduction by the author • 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51303262880032,"sku":"9780375703867","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9780375703867.jpg?v=1772748964","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/products\/white-teeth","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}