Briti kirjandus 20.-21. sajand kordamisküsimused vastustega
one headed by Archie, the other by Archie's best friend, a Muslim Bengali named Samad Iqbal.
Pals since they served together in World War II, Archie and Samad are a decidedly unlikely pair.
Plodding Archie is typical in every way until he marries Clara, a beautiful, toothless Jamaican
woman half his age, and the couple have a daughter named Irie (the Jamaican word for "no
problem"). Samad --devoutly Muslim, hopelessly "foreign"-- weds the feisty and always suspicious
Alsana in a prearranged union. They have twin sons named Millat and Magid, one a pot-smoking
punk-cum-militant Muslim and the other an insufferable science nerd. The riotous and tortured
histories of the Joneses and the Iqbals are fundamentally intertwined, capturing an empire's worth
of cultural identity, history, and hope.
Zadie Smith's dazzling first novel plays out its bounding, vibrant course in a Jamaican hair salon in
annaabi.ee 
