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Zadie Smith

Autor(a) de White Teeth

44+ Works 35,820 Membros 862 Críticas 149 Favorited

About the Author

Zadie Smith is a novelist, essayist and short story writer. As of 2012, she has published four novels, White Teeth (2000), The Autograph Man (2002), On Beauty (2005), and NW (2012), all of which have received critical praise. In 2003, she was included on Granta's list of 20 best young authors and mostrar mais Smith won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2006. Her novel White Teeth was included in Time magazines TIME 100 Best English-language. Smith joined NYU's Creative Writing Program as a tenured professor in 2010. Smith attended Hampstead Comprehensive School, and King's College, Cambridge University where she studied English literature. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Zadie Smith

White Teeth (2000) — Autor — 13,627 exemplares
On Beauty (2005) 9,333 exemplares
The Autograph Man (2002) 3,014 exemplares
Swing Time (2016) 2,519 exemplares
NW (2012) 2,424 exemplares
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays (2009) 1,029 exemplares
The Book of Other People (2008) — Editor — 737 exemplares
The Fraud (2023) 689 exemplares
Feel Free: Essays (2018) 665 exemplares
Intimations: Six Essays (2020) 629 exemplares
Grand Union: Stories (2019) 489 exemplares
The Embassy of Cambodia (2013) 190 exemplares
Martha and Hanwell (2005) 141 exemplares
Burned Children of America (2001) — Editor — 121 exemplares
The Wife of Willesden (2021) 78 exemplares
The Surprise (2021) 57 exemplares
Piece of Flesh (2001) — Editor — 11 exemplares
Perché scrivere (2011) 8 exemplares
Betrug: Roman (2023) 6 exemplares
I'm the Only One (2007) 4 exemplares
Lost and Found Opowiadania (2015) 4 exemplares
Now More Than Ever 3 exemplares
The Waiter's Wife 2 exemplares
Escape from New York 2 exemplares
Dead Man Laughing [essay] (2008) 2 exemplares
Big Week 1 exemplar
The Lazy River 1 exemplar
Hanwell in Hell 1 exemplar
Generation Why? 1 exemplar
L'impostore: romanzo (2023) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) — Introdução, algumas edições18,978 exemplares
The Quiet American (1955) — Introdução, algumas edições7,990 exemplares
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1871) — Introdução, algumas edições7,777 exemplares
Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) — Introdução, algumas edições3,098 exemplares
The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) — Introdução, algumas edições2,968 exemplares
Girl With Curious Hair (1988) — Prefácio, algumas edições2,245 exemplares
Speaking with the Angel (2001) — Contribuidor — 1,521 exemplares
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003 (2003) — Introdução — 746 exemplares
Writer's Thesaurus (2004) — Contribuidor — 559 exemplares
The Library Book (2012) — Contribuidor — 393 exemplares
Recitatif: A Story (1983) — Introdução, algumas edições347 exemplares
The 40s: The Story of a Decade (2014) — Contribuidor — 275 exemplares
Granta 81: Best of Young British Novelists 2003 (2003) — Contribuidor — 273 exemplares
The Best American Essays 2010 (2010) — Contribuidor — 226 exemplares
The Best American Essays 2011 (2011) — Contribuidor — 225 exemplares
Best European Fiction 2010 (2009) — Prefácio — 166 exemplares
The Best American Essays 2014 (2014) — Contribuidor — 166 exemplares
Stop What You're Doing and Read This! (2011) — Contribuidor — 157 exemplares
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014 (2014) — Contribuidor — 145 exemplares
Granta 67: Women and Children First (1999) — Compositor — 143 exemplares
The Best of McSweeney's {complete} (1800) — Contribuidor — 143 exemplares
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Contribuidor — 116 exemplares
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker (2021) — Contribuidor — 90 exemplares
McSweeney's Issue 42 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Multiples (2013) — Contribuidor — 62 exemplares
Busted in New York and Other Essays (2019) — Prefácio, algumas edições46 exemplares
The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom (2019) — Prefácio — 41 exemplares
The Best American Magazine Writing 2014 (2014) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
Mark Bradford: Tomorrow Is Another Day (2017) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill (2017) — Introdução — 17 exemplares
The Paris Review 208 2014 Spring (2014) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares
The Story About the Story Vol. II (2013) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
We Are (2021) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
White Teeth [2002 TV mini series] — Original book — 2 exemplares
Kafka! een bijl voor de bevroren zee van binnen — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares

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Membros

Discussions

May 2020: Zadie Smith em Monthly Author Reads (Setembro 2021)
(M53'12) The Autograph Man, Zadie Smith em World Reading Circle (Outubro 2012)
1001 Group Read for September, 2012: White Teeth em 1001 Books to read before you die (Setembro 2012)
On Beauty by Zadie Smith em Orange January/July (Julho 2012)
White Teeth -Mirrani's book 1 of 2012 em World Reading Circle (Janeiro 2012)

Críticas

This is the first novel that made Zadie Smith an instant hit. Well, it's taken a while for me to catch up, but I'm glad I did.
The opening chapters of the book are just so stunning creative and enjoyable, that I felt like going back and re-reading them multiple times.
It would be hard for any author to maintain that intensity, and Zadie is no different. The book settles down into a tale of people in the UK, many with a migrant and/or mixed race element. Very readable, but not perfect. But amazingly good for such a young writer.
I'll be back to read more of Ms Smith.
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mbmackay | 246 outras críticas | Mar 18, 2024 |
In the spirit of the book, I feel free to say that these essays touched me not one bit although that is not to say that I wasn't interested in parts.

What Smith is able to do is make connections between rappers, discuss art, reflect on how she now thinks differently to her eighteen year old self and write about it gracefully, with diversions off but always swinging round to the starting point. But there were also essays that left me wondering what I was reading about, wondering how many people think like that - the Schopenhauer essay left me cold and thinking that Smith lived in some rarified world where poeple discuss this sort of philosophy around the dinner tables in London, stereotyping her and not setting her free at all.

I was able to appreciate her gratitude for the times in which she was born and raised. Brent Council paying her rent when she attended university and providing the possiblities of attending cultural events and institutions, often for free. These are the things that free minds and are now not necessarily available to all children regardless of parental income. And so, I couldn't help but think that the roots of what set her free have all but rotted away through years of austerity and ignorance (I'm thinking of recent culture ministers here).

In the foreword, Smith comments (brags?) that she teaches on a Master of Fine Arts course but doesn't have one herself and nor does she have a PhD and I think she is saying that this allows her to be more free-thinking. But she does have a degree from Cambridge and if this is the educational background that makes us free then many of us will not achieve it. She feels things, is intimate with them. We all do but we don't necessarily attach words to them that will then be published and free in the world for a reader to respond to.

I recently enjoyed The Fraud but found these essays to be highbrow in their response to culture and therefore sometimes inaccessible. Margo Jefferson wins hands down in the cultural critiquing world for me.
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allthegoodbooks | 16 outras críticas | Mar 11, 2024 |
An accomplished book. The portrayal of Victorian society is so well researched and presented , it’s amazing. I am a huge Dickens fan and that made this a somewhat difficult read. While his more well known sins, such as his treatment of his wife are presented, it is his occasional smallness that she captures so brilliantly, all the while acknowledging his wit and observational powers.

The story is all about frauds of one type or another….including the lies we tell about ourselves.

Perhaps for this reason, it feels a bit cool and intellectual…more of an analytical experience than a heartfelt story….
Technically,thoroughly brilliant
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cspiwak | 31 outras críticas | Mar 6, 2024 |
11. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
readers: Lenny Henry, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Ray Panthaki & Arya Sagar
OPD: 2000
format: 18:38 audible audiobook (448-pages in paperback)
acquired: February 1 listened: Feb 1-26
rating: 5
genre/style: Novel theme: random audio
locations: London 1975 to 1992
about the author: An English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. She was born in 1975 in Willesden, northwest London, to a Jamaican mother and an English father who was 30 years his wife's senior.

I read Zadie Smith's [On Beauty] in 2005, the year it was published. (Before LT existed) It was good, and it gave me a sense of what was popular then in literary circles. But it was, in a way, just another novel. Nothing was calling me back to read more Zadie Smith. So, although I've known about [White Teeth] a while, I haven't pursued it.

I did not expect this. Terry Pratchett comes to mind, or maybe Six Feet Under. This is charming humor. It's not about the humor, the events aren't exactly funny, but it's pervaded by a humor. It was just always entertaining.

The humor is cultural, largely around ethnic and social misunderstandings. The main characters are two World War II buddies, one English, Archibald Jones, and one Bengali, Samad Iqbal, both married women decades younger them. Archie is married to a Jamaican woman with no front teeth, Samad to a Bengali woman through a marriage that was arranged before she was born. They each have children, Samad twin boys who he tries to keep Muslim growing up in suburban London.

As these children grow up, Smith explores how these men and their wives evolve in their unhappy marriages. Archie's Jamaican wife is largely silent and both leaving their daughter to figure things out on her own. Samad tries to physically control his wife, but she's much younger and healthier and they end up wrestling to painful draws, their twin boys sitting by and watching them and awaiting the compromised outcome. When she is exceptionally upset, she punishes Samad by refusing to confirm anything he asks. She never says "yes" or "no", but only variations of maybe. Samad, further, is a lax but dedicated Muslim lost in London, unwilling or unable to go home to Bengal. Both men remain disconnected from their children, but Samad will fret what his children become, and will occasionally do crazy things to try to make them into blend into his ideal Bengali traditions that he doesn't follow himself.

It's worth noting the Archie's daughter, Irie, is an alternate Zadie. She is also mixed race, with an English father 30 years older than her Jamaican mother. So, Archie's parental failures and Irie's struggles have a deeper cut under the humor.

Well, I don't know that anything of the book's charm comes through there. Smith manages to address serious hot-button cultural issues with a freedom and freshness that is unusual, and insightful; critical but respectful. She gets into serious extreme Muslim strains (on the eve of Sep 11), and also into English-Bengali and English-Jamaican racial issues. It's smart, and expectedly charming, and works wonderfully. And I don't believe Zadie Smith has written anything else like this. It's a one-time thing. For that lightning in bottle, she gets five stars.

Recommended to everyone.

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dchaikin | 246 outras críticas | Mar 2, 2024 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
44
Also by
39
Membros
35,820
Popularidade
#524
Avaliação
3.8
Críticas
862
ISBN
506
Línguas
25
Marcado como favorito
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