Descripción
Set in a London immigrant neighborhood, the immense human fresco drawn by the author has as its epicenter the families of Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal, two former World War II combatants who meet again after thirty years apart. Archie is married to an exuberant Jamaican woman and Samad to Alsana, a Bengali like him, with very clear ideas. But the most worrying thing is not being married to young women with devilish temperaments, nor the lack of money, nor the aftermath of the war; no, the hardest test is the relationship with their children, who, when carrying out their parents' failed projects, rebel: they rebel against British racism, against their own social class, even against their neighborhood, their origins, and their history. Thus, each in their own way, they are living proof of how difficult it is to escape a pre-determined destiny. Undoubtedly one of the most outstanding young authors of Anglo-Saxon literature in recent years, the British Zadie Smith astonished critics and readers alike when, at just twenty-two years old, she revealed in this exceptional first novel an unprecedented ability to record human greatness and misery with an observant and detached eye, full of humor and wise irony. Awarded the Whitbread and Guardian prizes, in addition to being a finalist in all other important literary competitions in Great Britain, White Teeth was featured on the cover of the New York Times and Le Monde and, in addition, topped the bestseller lists on both sides of the Atlantic. ENGLISH EDITION One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Zadie 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. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. 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, 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, White Teeth revels in the ecstatic hodgepodge of modern life, flirting with disaster, confounding expectations, and embracing the comedy of daily existence.
Author: Zadie Smith
Publisher: Debolsillo
Published: 02/18/2025
Pages: 528
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 7.46h x 5.09w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9788466377201
ISBN10: 8466377204
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Psychological
- Fiction | Family Life | General
- Fiction | Women
About the Author
Zadie Smith (London, 1975) studied English Literature at the University of Cambridge. With White Teeth (Salamandra, 2001) she won the Whitbread First Novel Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, and the Commonwealth Writers' First Book Award and The Guardian. The Autograph Man (Salamandra, 2003) was awarded the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize and was a finalist for the Orange Prize, and her third novel, On Beauty (Salamandra, 2006), won that prize in 2006 and was a finalist for the Booker Prize in 2005. In 2013, her fourth novel, NW London, was published in Spanish, and in 2017, Swing Time. She has also published the essay collection Changing My Mind (Salamandra, 2011) and edited the anthology The Book of Other People (Salamandra, 2009). In 2003, she was chosen as Best Young British Novelist by the prestigious magazine Granta, an achievement repeated in 2013. In 2006, Time magazine included her in its list of the hundred most influential people of the year. Zadie Smith is a member of the Royal Society of Literature.