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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... read more
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Memorable Quotes
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“"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.”
First Sentence
Early in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway.
Table of Contents
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
Authors & Contributors
- Zadie Smith (Author)
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