A Bengali Authorette you prolly never heard of...

[amee_patla_na]

Zadie Smith?

her book is entitled White Teeth.

its about a Bengali man who befriends a caucasian man during WWII. so they both grow up together and get married. Bengi boy marries a bengi from back home and has a pair of twin sons. Caucasian kid marries a Jamaican. so once the Bengali twins turn ten, daddy decides that the UK isnt a good place for his sons to grow up. but he only can afford to send ONE son back to Bangladesh. so he chooses whom he reckons is the "good" son. so in the middle of the night, he takes his son to the airport and puts him on a plane, the next morning the wife freaks out.

15 some years later, "good" son comes back from Bangladesh & the difference between the two boys is sooooooooo much.

It's quite an interesting book, I never knew the author was Bengali until after reading the book. It starts off really slow, mind you, but once it takes off, it shoots way up there.

Enjoy

[angeleyes]

Read it last year, it was a laugh



They made a series and showed it on Channel4 (I think it was C4) with Om Puri as the dad....(I might be wrong again on this point...)

But am almost sure (but not 100%) that Z. Smith isn't Bangali.

(Why am I even bothering...it's past Midnight and I am feeling my age. At least my memo is! :sad: )

[amee_patla_na]

well angeleyes, I dont think OMNI1 would show a thing like that, maybe OMNI2, but I dont think theyre capable of making such things, theyre series SUCK. the Bengali one before Ishtyle is soo crappy, and Lord knows what they say!!

she isnt Bengali? oooo...never mind then...

[Star]

got it two years back

ye zadie looks to be some kinda half-castey type of person - looks a mix of black and white - read a profile of her but have forgotten what it said

nice cover - got to page 100 - then passed it on to someone else

book was just weird

[Khilari]

i met the guy who played the main character from the TV White Teeth at Baker Street (he aint bangali btw)

but he said he really enjoyed makin it.

i thought the book was well written, but the story was rubbish


and apn... what the heck is OMNI?????

yeah zadie smith is half jamaican, half english (dad). what made u think she was a bingo?

[burns]

i saw zadi smith on a topicl TV program called Question Time. she spoke nonsense plus she looked like a druggy so i didnt bother with her book despite it being a best seller and focuing on a bangladeshi couple.

is authorette even a word?

[Ethelflaed]

I have seen the series on ch4, it was crap, and that actor who looks Asian is actually half Ghanian, 1/4 Irish and 1/4 Greek (?).