White Teeth

White Teeth is a 2000 novel by the British author Zadie Smith. It focuses on the lives of two wartime friends - the Bangladeshi Samad Iqbal and the Englishman Archie Jones and their families in Britain.

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2000 - Novel - British - Zadie Smith - Bangladeshi

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Archie marries Clara, having met her on a staircase on New Year's Day, and they have a girl, Irie. Samad, on the other hand, emigrates to Britain after World War II, marries the much-younger Alsana, and they have two twin boys. Separated as children, one of the boys becomes pious and unemotional whilst the other becomes angry and fundamentalist.

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World War II - Fundamentalist

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The story mixes pathos and humour, all the while illustrating the dilemmas of immigrants as they are confronted by a new, and very different, society.

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Pathos - Immigrants

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