The Fraud, September 2023
Hardcover / e-Book Grand Union, October 2019
Trade Size / e-Book Nw, September 2012
Hardcover / e-Book Changing My Mind, November 2009
Hardcover On Beauty, August 2006
Paperback (reprint) On Beauty, September 2005
Hardcover The Autograph Man, June 2003
Paperback (reprint) White Teeth, June 2001
Paperback (reprint)
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.
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