Dientes Blancos / White Teeth

Un relato fresco y divertido de la Inglaterra moderna a través de la historia ferozmente ingeniosa de los inmigrantes en Inglaterra durante un período de cuarenta años.

Nominada por los estadounidenses como una de las 100 mejores novelas en la serie de PBS The Great American Read.

>Sin duda uno de los autores jóvenes más destacados de la literatura anglosajona de los últimos años, la británica Zadie Smith asombró a la crítica y al público lector cuando, con apenas veintidós años, reveló en esta excepcional primera novela una inaudita capacidad para registrar las grandezas y miserias humanas con un ojo observador y distante, pleno de humor y sabia ironía. Galardonada con los premios Whitbread y Guardian, además de quedar finalista en todos los demás concursos literarios importantes de Gran Bretaña, Dientes blancos fue portada del New York Times y Le Monde y, por añadidura, ocupó los primeros puestos en las listas de libros más vendidos en ambas orillas del Atlántico.

ENGLISH EDITION

One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.

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.

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.

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.