Witte Tanden by Zadie Smith

Set in late-20th-century London, this energetic, satirical family saga follows two wartime friends and the tangled lives of their families as their children come of age amid immigration, race, class, and competing claims of faith and science. With sharp humor and empathy it tracks how history, chance, and personal choices — from arranged expectations to a controversial genetics project — shape identity, ambition, and the search for belonging in a multicultural city.

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