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He served in the British Army during World War II and returned to Bengal after the war. Following India’s independence from Great Britain, Bengal became East Pakistan and then Bangladesh. In the early 1970s, because of economic conditions in Bangladesh, Samad and his wife Alsana move to London.
Samad Iqbal is a middle-aged Bangladeshi immigrant who fought in World War II with Archie Jones, who becomes Samad’s close friend. After the war, he moves to Archie’s neighborhood in London with his new wife, Alsana Iqbal.
Samad and Archie start talking about their war experiences. Their wives and children leave the room. Archie and Samad then head for O’Connell’s. Summary: Chapter 10, The Root Canals of Mangal Pande. Archie and Samad spend the last night of 1989 at O’Connell’s, where they have been customers for fifteen years.
Archie and Samad’s friendship goes back to World War II when they served in a British Army tank battalion. During that time, Samad and Archie helped capture a Nazi scientist, Dr. Perret, and had the chance to execute him.
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
Samad's late-in-life arranged marriage (he had to wait for his bride to be born), produces twin sons whose separate paths confound Iqbal's every effort to direct them, and a renewed, if selective, submission to his Islamic faith.
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Unlike Samad, he does not believe in destiny: instead, he embraces life as chaotic and random. On one hand, Archie’s decision to save the doctor again—after saving him during the war—might represent his firm belief that decisions made by chance, at random, must be upheld: he might believe that he needs to repeat the decision produced by ...
