White Teeth读书介绍
| 类别 | 页数 | 译者 | 网友评分 | 年代 | 出版社 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 书籍 | 464页 | 9.5 | 2020 | Vintage |
| 定价 | 出版日期 | 最近访问 | 访问指数 |
|---|---|---|---|
| USD 16.95 | 2020-02-20 … | 2021-01-29 … | 39 |
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 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.
作者简介査蒂査蒂·史密斯（Zadie Smith 1975— ）当代英国最具影响力的作家之一，奥兰治（Orange）奖得主,入选2003年英国著名文学杂志《Granta》10年评选一次的“英国20位最佳青年作家”。在多族裔混居的北伦敦长大，父亲为英国白人，母亲带有牙买加黑人血统。
査蒂6岁就开始写诗，创作短篇小说。不过，她童年时的梦想并不是当作家，而是做跳踢踏舞的舞蹈家。
中学时，査蒂似乎不是那种有远大抱负的好学生。她把绝大部分课余时间都用在阅读和交友上，还抽过大麻。当她告诉老师自己想申请剑桥时，老师直接告诉她这想法太荒谬，太不切合实际。然而，她果真如愿来到了剑桥大学研究英语文学。在剑桥国王学院，她整天沉浸在小说的世界里，从她喜爱的作家如福斯特、塞林格和冯内古特那里学习写作的技巧和审美情趣。上高中和大学时，她还曾靠在酒吧做爵士乐歌手打工赚钱。
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