White Teeth
Zadie Smith, 2000
464 pages
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🔽 Intro and review summary 🔽
✔ Lives in the suburb of the multicultural London of the 90’s
✔ Friendship, love affairs, family, confidence and community
✔ Love letter to London that’s disappearing
✔ Friendship, love affairs, family, confidence and community
✔ Love letter to London that’s disappearing
★★★★★ Love letter to London that’s disappearing. We all have different opinions, skin colour, age, roots, culture, education, faith, or lack of any or all of it, but we try to survive this thing called life as a community.
🔽 Book review and notes 🔽
The most talked about book ever since I arrived in London, for over 2 decades now.
And only now reading it.
Somehow I thought it be more, coarse or rough, but it was surprisingly heart warming and this really is the London I loved, the mess and how Londoners coped.
But I lived mostly in Islington, more clearly a Turkish area, but it is what you’d seen even in 2003 when I arrived, then slowly disappeared, or put under the carpet.
We all have different opinions, skin colour, age, roots, culture, education, faith, or lack of any or all of it, and it’s ok you are not the same, or not in agreement, but we try to survive this thing called life as a community.
The struggle to survive as a community, as a component of something big and messy, it’s the fun, it’s worth it.
🔽 Where to buy 🔽
●●● Amazon.com (US) ●●●
White Teeth: A Novel
●●● Amazon.co.uk (UK) ●●●
White Teeth: The iconic, award-winning modern classic celebrates its 25th anniversary
●●● Amazon.it (Italy) ●●●
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