White Teeth

Zadie Smith's novel White Teeth was published in 2000. It follows the lives of two wartime buddies, Bangladeshi Samad Iqbal and Englishman Archie Jones, and their families in London after the war. The story focuses on Britain's connection with Commonwealth immigrants. White Teeth received several awards, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2000, the Whitbread Book Award in the category of best debut novel in 2000, the Guardian First Book Award, the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize, and the Betty Trask Award. It was featured on the "Big Jubilee Read" list of 70 novels by Commonwealth authors chosen to commemorate Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee in 2022.

White Teeth (2000) by English writer and essayist Zadie Smith is a novella about diversity and the struggle for immigrants and natives alike to make sense of their cultural identity, set in a rough North London area. Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal, two World War II soldiers and unusual buddies, are at the heart of the tale. The cultural melting pot that is Smith's North London locale lends White Teeth a contemporary air, despite the fact that the author begins the novel in the 1970s. The book provides readers with a unique look of modern London, which is very different from the metropolis popularized by nineteenth-century novelists.

Detailed information:
Author: Zadie Smith
Genre: Fiction, contemporary, novels
Published: April 1, 2000
Link to read: goodreads.com/book/show/3711