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The Modern World - Zadie Smith's debut novel chronicles contemporary multicultural London and brings George Eliot to mind.

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From: World and I
Date: 20000901
Author:MOSELEY, MERRITT

Merritt Moseley teaches literature at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He is the author of books on David Lodge, Kingsley Amis, and Julian Barnes; a frequent commentator on the Booker Prize for the Sewanee Review and other journals; and editor of the Dictionary of Literary Biography volumes on British novelists since 1960.

Samad Iqbal, one of two central characters in White Teeth, Zadie Smith's remarkable debut novel, is a troubled man. He is troubled by his children, by his place in a multicultural Britain, by his inability to be the kind of good Muslim he ...

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