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White Teeth

“Early in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway. At 06.27 hours on 1 January 1975, Alfred Archibald Jones was dressed in corduroy and sat in a fume-filled Cavalier Musketeer Estate face down on the steering wheel, hoping the judgement would not be too heavy upon him. He lay forward in a prostrate cross, jaw slack, arms splayed either side like some fallen angel; scrunched up in each fist he held his army service medals (left) and his marriage license (right), for he  ...

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White Teeth

“I’m a Muslim,” said Samad, pushing a plate of pork away. “And my Rita Hayworth leaves me only with my soul.” “Why don’t you eat it?” said Archie, guzzling his two chops down like a madman. “Strange business, if you ask me.” “I don’t eat it for the same reason you as an Englishman will never truly satisfy a woman.” “Why’s that?” said Archie, pausing from his feast. “It’s in our  ...

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