A perfect book to re-read! This is a very funny book chronicling the lives of immigrants in the United Kingdom and focuses on issues such as children of immigrants forming new, collective identities due to identity crisis, the whole question about who is really English and problems in a multicultura...
I generally like this but there are some issues. She says, for example, that Samad's wife stopped speaking to him directly, but then she continues to do so. What she means by speaking directly is not what I would have understood. I guess that's my fault, but I don't know. Also, she claims you ca...
Couldn't finish it, even though I read it for a book group. One armed man who worked as a waiter and could drive an unadapted car was low point for me.
Zadie Smith tiene un hermoso estilo que le merece toda la popularidad que tiene. White Teeth es un libro que tiene varias capas de significado, que vas descubriendo conforme avanzas. Sin embargo, no parece que tengas que pensarlas demasiado. Consigue llegarte sin mucho esfuerzo y casi sin querer te ...
White Teeth is an epic story of 2 families living in London - Archie Jones and his Jamaican born wife, Clara, and Samad and Alsana Iqbal, two Bengali Muslims. It's hard to describe this book since it covers such an amazing amount of topics - from the conflict in a traditional family whose kids just...
There wasn't one sympathetic character (well, maybe one?) in the book but despite that I enjoyed it. There were some funny, sad parts. Felt like a British tv drama/comedy. Possibly a 3 1/2*.
This was my first Zadie Smith novel, and I was very impressed. My first thought about this book was that it was very well written. I thought Smith dealt with the subject matter of race and religion very well here. One thing which really made these issues stick out was her characterization. Anothe...
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