White Teeth
White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
First published 2000 · 528 pages · about 9 hours to read
About this book
One of the most talked about fictional debuts of recent years, WHITE TEETH is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of coming back and biting you on the ankle, it is a life-affirming, riotous must-read of a book.
Quotes
“The thinnest covering of luck was on him like fresh dew. While he slipped in and out of consciousness, the position of the planets, the music of the spheres, the flap of a tiger moth's diaphanous wings in Central Africa, and a whole bunch of other stuff that makes shit happen had decided it was second-chance time for Archie.”
“This is what divorce is: Taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.”
“Revelation is where all crazy people end up. It's the last stop on the nutso express.”
“Because this is the other thing about immigrants: they cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.”
“He talked and talked, the kind of talking you do to stave off the inevitable physical desire. The kind of talk that only increases it.”
Quotes from Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 4.0), chosen with AI.
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