On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his Cavalier Musketeer station wagon. Archieβworking-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his beltβis calling it quits, the deciding factor being the flip of a 20-pence coin. When t
White Teeth
β Scribed by Zadie Smith
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 450 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Unflappable working-class Englishman, Archibald Jones, and deep-thinking, serious Bengali Muslim waiter, Samad Iqbal, first meet inside a tank in the waning days of World War II. They reunite thirty years later in North London.
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