Epic in scale and intimate in approach, White Teeth is an ambitious novel. Genetics, eugenics, gender, race, class and history are the book's themes but Zadie Smith is gifted with the wit and inventiveness to make these weighty ideas seem effortlessly light.
The story travels through Jamaica, Turkey, Bangladesh and India but ends up in a scrubby North London borough, home of the book's two unlikely heroes: prevaricating Archie Jones and intemperate Samad Iqbal. They met in the Second World War, as part of a "Buggered Battalion" and have been best friends ever since. Archie marries beautiful, buck-toothed Clara, who's on the run from her Jehovah's Witness mother, and they have a daughter, Irie. Samad marries stroppy Alsana and they have twin sons: "Children with first and last names on a direct collision course. Names that secrete within them mass exodus, cramped boats and planes, cold arrivals, medical checks."
Big questions demand boldly drawn characters. Zadie Smith's aren't heroic, just real: warm, funny, misguided and entirely familiar; reading their conversations is like eavesdropping. A simple scene, Alsana and Clara chatting about their pregnancies in the park: "A woman has to have the private things--a husband needn't be involved in body business, in a lady's ... parts."
Samad's rant about his sons--"They have both lost their way. Strayed so far from what I had intended for them. No doubt they will both marry white women called Sheila and put me in an early grave--acutely displays "the immigrant fears--dissolution, disappearance" but it also gets to the very heart of Samad.
White Teeth is a joy to read. It teems with life and exuberence and has enough cleverness and irreverent seriousness to give it bite. --Eithne Farry --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW, and Swing Time, as well as two collections of essays, Changing My Mind and Feel Free. Zadie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. White Teeth won multiple literary awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. On Beauty was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and NW was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
近年来,少数民族裔作家开始吃香,吸引了评论界的眼球。 应该是在这个时代,人们开始关注的问题 各种文化的融合,可是实际上基本是弱势文化被强势文化吞没 这种潮流是无法阻挡的 历史的必然 这些little men的无奈与挣扎贯穿了他们的一生,而这种无奈一直在延续,延续到下一代,...
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评分 评分我以前已经提到过,这是我今年看到的,最值得推荐的一本书。 尤其是前面2/3,可以说得是波澜壮阔的史诗,智慧与幽默并存,现实与历史辉映。
说句实在话,这本书的语言风格是极其独特的,它既有古典文学的典雅韵味,又充满了现代的锐利和不羁。有时候,作者会突然抛出一个极其尖锐、近乎残忍的洞察,让你猛地惊醒,感叹于文字力量的强大。它探讨的主题非常宏大,关乎几代人的迁徙、融合与疏离,但作者却总能将这种宏大感收束到极其微小、私密的家庭互动之中,通过对日常琐事的细致刻画,完成对人类普遍情感的深刻揭示。我读到许多地方,都忍不住停下来,反复琢磨那些句子是如何被精准地构造出来的。这本书成功地做到了,它让你在阅读过程中感到挑战,但结束时,你却为能“幸存”于这故事的世界而感到一种独特的满足感和被洗礼过的清晰感。
评分我最受触动的是作者对“声音”的运用。书中对于不同语言、不同口音的描摹,简直是听觉上的盛宴。那些对话火花四溅,既能展现人物的社会阶层和成长背景,又能微妙地揭示出角色之间的权力关系和情感距离。阅读时,我仿佛能清晰地听到那些交织在一起的方言、那些压抑的叹息和那些突如其来的欢笑。这种听觉上的丰富性,极大地增强了故事的立体感和真实感。而且,作者在处理宏大历史背景与个体命运交织时,展现出一种令人敬佩的平衡感。历史不再是冰冷的背景板,而是像血液一样流淌在每一个角色的血液里,影响着他们的每一个微小决定。读完后,那种萦绕心头的感觉,不是情节的曲折,而是那些鲜活“声响”的回荡。
评分这部作品简直是一场文字的盛宴,作者以其炉火纯青的笔触,勾勒出了一幅幅鲜活生动、错综复杂的人物群像。叙事节奏的处理高明至极,时而如涓涓细流般细腻入微地描摹角色的内心挣扎与情感波动,时而又如同狂风骤雨般将读者卷入那些突如其来的命运转折之中。我尤其欣赏作者对文化冲突与身份认同的探讨,那种在不同背景、不同价值观碰撞下产生的张力,被刻画得入木三分,让人深思。书中的一些场景设定,无论是异域风情的街景,还是封闭家庭内部的压抑气氛,都充满了强烈的画面感,仿佛每一个角落都诉说着各自隐秘的历史。阅读的过程,更像是一场跟随主角们穿越时空、经历人生的奇妙旅程,那些关于家庭的羁绊、关于梦想的追逐、关于和解的渴望,都以一种既不煽情也不说教的姿态,自然而然地渗透进读者的心底。
评分这本书的结构设计堪称一场精妙的建筑工程,它在多重视角间游走自如,却始终保持着惊人的内在逻辑性。作者毫不避讳地展示了人性的阴暗面和矛盾性,角色的动机往往是多层次的、模糊不清的,这恰恰反映了现实生活的复杂本质。我尤其喜欢那些穿插其中的、带有强烈象征意味的意象,它们如同隐藏的密码,等待着细心的读者去发掘其深层含义。每一次重读,都像是在剥开一个新的层次,总能发现之前因为专注于主线情节而忽略掉的精妙伏笔或反讽意味。这绝非是一部轻松的读物,它要求读者投入心力去辨析,去构建属于自己的理解框架,但所获得的回报,是关于人性理解的深度拓宽。
评分说实话,初读时我有点被其庞杂的叙事线索和跳跃的时间跨度弄得有些手足无措,但一旦适应了作者独特的叙事“呼吸”频率,便会发现其中蕴含着惊人的秩序与匠心。作者似乎对手稿的精细打磨达到了近乎痴迷的程度,每一个看似随意的对话,每一个不经意的细节,都像是经过精密计算的棋子,最终指向一个令人叹服的整体布局。那些人物的“怪癖”和“执念”,被描绘得如此真实可信,以至于你甚至会感觉他们就生活在你身边,他们的困境和选择也折射出我们这个时代普遍存在的一些困境。这本书的魅力在于它的厚重感,它没有试图给出简单的答案,反而将人性的复杂性、历史的沉重性摊开在你面前,让你自己去品味、去消化。它需要的不仅仅是快速浏览,更是一种沉浸式的、带着敬意的慢读。
评分传说中的“歇斯底里现实主义”。的确,过分庞杂、枝蔓横生的叙述语言,掩盖不了作品本质上的单薄。为什么不写成短篇小说?
评分传说中的“歇斯底里现实主义”。的确,过分庞杂、枝蔓横生的叙述语言,掩盖不了作品本质上的单薄。为什么不写成短篇小说?
评分半自传体的黑白混血在伦敦,作者因此年少成名
评分written 10 years ago. still incredibly relevant today. prophesy? or simply a problem never to be solved? will it then resolve on its own?
评分写得太棒了!很有抱负的一本书,有趣,复杂,有很多关于英国移民文化值得咀嚼的ideas.
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