White teeth : a novel

Summary: Set in post-war London, this novel of the racial, political, and social upheaval of the last half-century follows two families--the Joneses and the Iqbals, both outsiders from within the former British empire--as they make their way in modern England.

Item details

ISBN: 0375501851 (hardcover)
ISBN: 9780375501852 (hardcover)
ISBN: 037550561X (Electronic version)
ISBN: 9780375505614 (Electronic version)
Physical Description: print
448 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Random House, c2000.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

Acknowledgments -- Archie 1974, 1945 -- 1: Peculiar second marriage of Archie Jones -- 2: Teething trouble -- 3: Two families -- 4: Three coming -- 5: Root canals of Alfred Archibald Jones and Samad Miah Iqbal -- Samad 1984, 1857 -- 6: Temptation of Samad Iqbal -- 7: Molars -- 8: Mitosis -- 9: Mutiny! -- 10: Root canals of Mangal Pande -- Irie 1990, 1907 -- 11: Mis education of Irie Jones -- 12: Canines: the ripping teeth -- 13: Root canals of Hortense Bowden -- 14: More English than the English -- 15: Chalfenism versus Bowdenism -- Magid, Millat, And Marcus 1992, 1999 -- 16: Return of Magid Mahfooz Murshed Mubtasim Iqbal -- 17: Crisis talks and eleventh-hour tactics -- 18: End of history versus the last man -- 19: Final space -- 20: Of mice and memory.

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