White Teeth by Zadie Smith (Book Analysis) E-Book

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• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 19

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

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This engaging summary presents an analysis of White Teeth by Zadie Smith, which centres around the lives of two families in North-West London throughout the second half of the 20th century. Through the various and sometimes contradictory experiences of her vivid cast of characters, Smith explores topics including friendship, ethnic and generational unrest, globalisation and identity in a rapidly changing world. White Teeth is Zadie Smith’s debut novel and won multiple literary prizes, including the Guardian First Book Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Her other works include the novels On Beauty and Swing Time, and the essay collections Changing My Mind and Feel Free.

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ZADIE SMITH

ENGLISH NOVELIST, ESSAYIST, SHORT STORY WRITER AND PROFESSOR AT NYU

Born in Brent, London in 1975.Notable works:On Beauty (2005), novelNW (2012), novelFeel Free (2018), essay collection

Born Sadie Smith to a Jamaican mother and white British father in North-West London in 1975, the writer known internationally as Zadie Smith changed her name at age 14 while she was a student at Hampstead Comprehensive School. She read English at King’s College, Cambridge, and began her life as a professional writer there, publishing her first work in The Mays Anthology, a collection of writing by Oxford and Cambridge students.

Smith was offered her first publishing contract as a result of her work in The Mays and, in 2000, published her debut novel White Teeth to enthusiastic international acclaim. She has published five novels, as well as collections of essays and short stories, and lives in New York, where she teaches on the faculty of creative writing at New York University.

She is married to the poet Nick Laird, whom she met while studying for her degree. They have two children.

WHITE TEETH

MULTI-GENERATIONAL NOVEL OF 20TH-CENTURY LONDON

Genre: novelReference edition: Smith, Z. (2001) White Teeth. London: Penguin Books.1stedition: 2000Themes: late 20th-century London, postcolonialism, race, ethnicity, faith, family, history, identity.

White Teeth centres around the proximate lives and shared community of two families living in North-West London throughout the second half of the 20th century. Stretching as far back at the Second World War and extending into the novel’s recent past in 1999, Smith’s debut novel tackles questions of ethnic and generational unrest, treating her characters’ various and sometimes contradictory experiences with extraordinary sensitivity, nuance, and levity.

Celebrated for its distinctive and wonderfully developed narrative voice, as well as for its scope and subject matter, White Teeth won numerous prizes upon its release, including the Guardian First Book Award, the Betty Trask Award, and the 2000 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.

In 2002, White Teeth was adapted into a four-part television miniseries directed by Julian Jarrold which aired on Channel 4.

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ARCHIE STARTS THINGS OFF WITH A NEW BEGINNING

The beginning of White Teeth