White Teeth: A Novel (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Pequeño saltamontes’s request to combine 19 books, including White Teeth: A Novel, Sunday, November 22 2009.

Pequeño saltamontes submitted a request to combine 19 books, including White Teeth: A Novel, Sunday, November 22 2009.

Vicky W edited the table of contents of White Teeth: A Novel Wednesday, November 18 2009.

• Archie 1974, 1945
  1. The Peculiar Second Marraige of Archie Jones
  2. Teething Trouble
  3. Two Families
  4. The Root Canals of Alfred Archibald Jones and Samad Miah Iqbal

  Samad 1984, 1857
  6. The Temptation of Samad Iqbal
  7. Molars
  8. Mitosis
  9. Mutiny!
  10. The Root Canals of Mangal Pande

  Irie 1990, 1907
  11. The Miseducation of Irie Jones
  12. Canines: The Ripping Teeth
  13. The Root Canals of Hortense Bowden
  14. More English Than the English
  15. Chalfenism Versus Bowdenism

  Magid, Millat amd Marcus 1992, 1999
  16. The Return of Magid Mahfooz Murshed Mubtasim Iqbal
  17 Crisis Talks and Eleventh Hour Tactics
  18. The End of History Versis The Last Man
  19. The Final Space
  20. Of Mice and Memory

Vicky W edited the quotations of White Teeth: A Novel Wednesday, November 18 2009.

• Added a quotation: “"You'll stay for dinner, won't you?" pleaded Joyce. 'Oscar really wants you to stay. Oscar loves having strangers in the house, he finds it really stimulating. Especially brown strangers! Don't you, Oscar?" "No, I dont'", confided Oscar, spitting in Irie's ear. "I hate brown strangers." "He finds brown strangers really stimulating." whispered Joyce.”

Timothy Gray approved Cerisier’s request to change the contributors of White Teeth: A Novel Sunday, October 18 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• Edited a contributor: Zadie Smith: (Primary NoneAuthor)
• Removed a contributor: Nina Shen Rastogi: (Primary Author)

Cerisier edited the contributors of White Teeth: A Novel Sunday, October 18 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• Edited a contributor: Zadie Smith: (Primary NoneAuthor)
• Removed a contributor: Nina Shen Rastogi: (Primary Author)

Averel edited the ridiculously simplified synopsis of White Teeth: A Novel Wednesday, August 26 2009.

• Added: Two men, different worlds, best friends... a little bit of war, extremist religions and family interactions

Shelfari edited the description of White Teeth: A Novel Saturday, August 1 2009.

• Zadie Smith’s dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis. But the truth is that Zadie Smith’s voice is remarkably, fluently, and altogether wonderfully her own. At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of England’s irrevocable transformation. A second marriage to Clara Bowden, a beautiful, albeit tooth-challenged, Jamaican half his age, quite literally gives Archie a second lease on life, and produces Irie, a knowing child whose personality doesn’t quite match her name (Jamaican for “no problem”). Samad’s late-in-life arranged marriage (he had to wait for his bride to be born), produces twin sons whose separate paths confound Iqbal’s every effort to direct them, and a renewed, if selective, submission to his Islamic faith. Set against London’s racial and cultural tapestry, venturing across the former empire and into the past as it barrels toward the future, White Teeth revels in the ecstatic hodgepodge of modern life, flirting with disaster, confounding expectations, and embracing the comedy of daily existence.

Shelfari edited the contributors of White Teeth: A Novel Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• Edited a contributor: Zadie Smith: (Primary AuthorNone)

Shelfari edited the contributors of White Teeth: A Novel Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Added a contributor: Nina Shen Rastogi: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: Zadie Smith: (Primary Author)