White Teeth-白牙

作者：Zadie Smith

书名：White Teeth《白牙》

中文背景：《白牙》（英语：White Teeth）为英国作家查蒂·史密斯于2000年所出版的小说。30年的婚姻破灭，阿吉随即在一个混乱的派对中与牙买加籍的克拉拉，并诞下混血女儿乔丽，阿吉战时的好友萨马德亦在差不多时间诞下双胞胎儿子迈勒特和马吉德。孟加拉藉的萨马德在儿子十岁时，决定将马吉德送和孟加拉接受穆斯林的训练，留下的儿子却成为街头的小混混。多年时间过去，马吉德却向往英式生活，迈勒特却成为极端宗教主义的信徒，乔丽则怀孕了，却不知道胎儿的父亲是谁，揭开了一场移民后代、混血儿、有色人种的宗教、道德及伦理的混战。

英文简介：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.