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        White Teeth


        setting

        London, England

        time

        1975

        language

        English

        region

        Western Europe

        year published

        2000

        page count

        480

        difficulty

        Difficult

        main characters

        Alfred Archibald Jones, Samad Miah Iqbal, Clara Jones

        Rip's impressions

        Reserved for Guest Editor

        first line

        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.