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Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal meet for the first time in April 1945. Archie is seventeen, and Samad is two years older. They are in the British Army, part of a tank battalion that is rolling through Greece. Archie drives the tank, and Samad is the wireless operator. Three other soldiers share the hot, airless tank.
Summary. Teenaged Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal meet in April 1945, near the end of World War II. Their five-man division, the "Buggered Battalion," is tasked with maintaining infrastructure.
After work, Samad meets Archie, whose job it is to deliver Magid to Zinat, a cousin who will take him to Bangladesh. Samad bids Magid goodbye. Summary: Chapter 9, Mutiny! Alsana stops speaking to her husband after Samad “kidnaps” their son Magid and ships him to Bangladesh.
Samad and Archie discuss women, and Samad admits that the woman he will marry—who will eventually turn out to be Alsana —is not yet born. Samad decides to “cement his friendship” with Archie by telling him the epic story of Mangal Pande , his relative.
Archie and Samad met in 1945 when they were part of a tank crew inching through Europe in the final days of World War II, though they missed out on the action. Their friendship was cemented when Archie, acting at Samad's behest, apparently executed an escaped Nazi scientist whom they had been tasked with turning over to the authorities.
- Zadie Smith
- 2000
We go back to World War II, when Archie and Samad first meet. Archie is seventeen and Samad nineteen when they are assigned to the same English Army tank on a mission through Eastern Europe. Rather than fight, they restore destroyed equipment and paths.
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Archie is a British Army veteran of World War II and a mild-mannered common man. After the war, he married an Italian woman, Ophelia Diagilo. After almost thirty years of marriage, Ophelia divorces Archie.
