Following the war, Samad emigrated to Britain and married Alsana Iqbal, née Alsana Begum, or "Miss Alsana", in a traditional arranged marriage. Archie and Samad met in 1945 when they were part of a tank crew inching through Europe in the final days of World War II, though they missed out on the action. Archie and Clara are soon married and have a daughter, Irie, who grows up to be intelligent but with low self-confidence.Īlso living in Willesden, London, is Archie's best friend Samad Iqbal, a Bengali Muslim from Bangladesh the two men spend much of their time at the O'Connell's pub. Clara had been interested in the unattractive, anti-social Ryan Topps, but their relationship falls apart after Ryan becomes a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses and becomes close to her mother. There he meets the much-younger Clara Bowden, a Jamaican woman whose mother, Hortense, is a devout Jehovah's Witness. Filled with a fresh enthusiasm for life, Archie flips a coin and then finds his way into the aftermath of a New Year's Eve party. On New Year's Day 1975, Archie Jones, a 47-year-old Englishman whose disturbed Italian wife has just walked out on him, is attempting to take his own life by gassing himself in his car when a chance interruption causes him to change his mind. In 2022, it was included on the " Big Jubilee Read" list of 70 books by Commonwealth authors, selected to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II. Time magazine included the novel in its list of the 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. White Teeth won multiple honors, including the 2000 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, the 2000 Whitbread Book Award in category best first novel, the Guardian First Book Award, the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize, and the Betty Trask Award. The novel centres on Britain's relationship with immigrants from the British Commonwealth.
It focuses on the later lives of two wartime friends-the Bangladeshi Samad Iqbal and the Englishman Archie Jones-and their families in London. White Teeth is a 2000 novel by the British author Zadie Smith.
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