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
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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 Englandβs 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 doesnβt quite match her name (Jamaican for βno problemβ). Samadβs late-in-life arranged marriage (he had to wait for his bride to be born), produces twin sons whose separate paths confound Iqbalβs every effort to direct them, and a renewed, if selective, submission to his Islamic faith. Set against Londonβs 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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