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Epic in scale and intimate in approach, White Teeth is a formidably ambitious debut. First novelist Zadie Smith takes on race, sex, class, history, and the minefield of gender politics, and such is her wit and inventiveness that these weighty subjects seem effortlessly light. She also has an impressive geographical range, guiding the reader from Jamaica to Turkey to Bangladesh and back again. Still, the book's home base is a scrubby North London borough, where we encounter Smith's unlikely heroes: prevaricating Archie Jones and intemperate Samad Iqbal, who served together in the so-called Buggered Battalion d
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Manufacturer: Random House
Release date: 25 April 2000
ISBN-10 : 0375501851 | ISBN-13: 9780375501852
Release date: 25 April 2000
ISBN-10 : 0375501851 | ISBN-13: 9780375501852
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