Als Ophelia nach 30 Ehejahren die Scheidung einreicht, beschließt Archibald Jones zu sterben. Doch er hat die Rechnung ohne Mo-Hussein Ishmael gemacht, den koscheren Metzger, der mit einem Selbstmord vor seiner Ladentür absolut nicht einverstanden ist. Archie kommt mit einem blauen Auge davon, stolpert in eine "Willkommen-zum-Ende-der-Welt-Party", begegnet der zahnlosen, aber bildschönen Jamaikanerin Clara, heiratet und schwängert sie und schlägt sich bald mit allen Problemen herum, die das multikulturelle London zu bieten hat.

Informationen zum Autor Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth , The Autograph Man , On Beauty , NW, Swing Time and The Fraud ; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia ; four collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free , Intimations and Dead and Alive ; a collection of short stories, Grand Union ; and the play, The Wife of Willesden , adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People . Zadie Smith was born in north-west London, where she still lives. Klappentext Zadie Smith's fizzing first novel is ... an astonishingly assured debut, funny and serious, and the voice has real writerly idiosyncrasy. I was delighted by White Teeth, and often impressed. Salman Rushdie One of the most talked about fictional débuts of recent years, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of coming back and biting you on the ankle, it is a life-affirming, riotous must-read of a book. White Teeth has won awards for Best Book and Best Female Newcomer at the BT Emma Awards (Ethnic and Multicultural Media Awards), the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread Prize for a first novel in 2000, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction 2000, the WH Smith Book Award for New Talent, the Frankfurt ebook Award for Best Fiction Work and both the Commonwealth Writers First Book Award and Overall Commonwealth Writers Prize. Zusammenfassung 'White Teeth' is a comic epic of multicultural Britain which tells the story of immigrants in England over a period of 40 years.

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Zadie Smith

Klappentext

Zadie Smith's fizzing first novel is ... an astonishingly assured debut, funny and serious, and the voice has real writerly idiosyncrasy. I was delighted by White Teeth, and often impressed.
Salman Rushdie
One of the most talked about fictional débuts of recent years, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of coming back and biting you on the ankle, it is a life-affirming, riotous must-read of a book.
White Teeth has won awards for Best Book and Best Female Newcomer at the BT Emma Awards (Ethnic and Multicultural Media Awards), the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread Prize for a first novel in 2000, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction 2000, the WH Smith Book Award for New Talent, the Frankfurt ebook Award for Best Fiction Work and both the Commonwealth Writers First Book Award and Overall Commonwealth Writers Prize.

Zusammenfassung
'White Teeth' is a comic epic of multicultural Britain which tells the story of immigrants in England over a period of 40 years.

Leseprobe
"'Ich bin ziemlich alt', sagte Archie, und dann, bloß weil ihm danach war, es ihr zu erzählen: 'Du glaubst mir bestimmt nicht, aber ich wär heute fast gestorben.' Clara runzelte die Stirn: 'Wirklich? Na dann, willkommen im Klub. Heute Morgen sin wir ziemlich viele. Is schon 'ne seltsame Fete hier. 'Weißte', sagte sie,'für jemand, der so dicht vor Petrus' Tor gestanden hat, siehst du ganz gut aus. Willste 'nen guten Rat hörn?' Archie nickte energisch. Er wollte immer einen Rat, er war ein großer Anhänger von Zweitmeinungen.
'Geh' nach Haus, erhol dich ein bisschen. Am Morgen ist die Welt wie neu, jedes Mal. Mann, das Leben is nich einfach.' Wohin nach Hause?, dachte Archie. Er hatte sein altes Leben ausgeklinkt, er bewegte sich auf unbekanntem Terrain. 'Mann...', wiederholte Clara, 'das Leben is nich einfach.'
Clara war neunzehn, Archie war siebenundvierzig. Sechs Wochen später waren sie verheiratet.