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White Teeth
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White Teeth by Zadie Smith
White Teeth is still one of the most talked-about fictional debuts of recent years. Meet the Joneses and the Iqbals, two families brought together by friendship, tangled histories and the London suburb of Willesden Green... White Teeth deals with - among many other things - friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of coming back and biting you on the ankle.
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White Teeth was the literary sensation of 2000. Published when its author was only 24, it displays an astonishing precocity: far from the self-indulgent autobiography of most first novels, it has a hugely ambitious scope. It has no single hero or heroine, but a cast of characters that includes young and old, male and female, working-class and middle-class, white and black. Set mainly in north London, it travels to both Turkey and Jamaica, and while most of the action takes place in the 1970s, 80s and 90s, it also harks back to the Second World War and the Indian mutiny of 1857. Its starting point is the friendship of Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal, two young men serving in the same battalion at the end of the war, who end up living in the same part of London. The book also tells the stories of these men's wives and children, analysing the inevitable tension that exists between the generations, as young Irie Jones and the handsome Iqbal twins pursue their own paths. There are two challenges in putting White Teeth onto audiotape. One is to condense a long, complicated and multi-layered book into six hours; the other is to do justice to the different voices of Smith's diverse characters. This version succeeds admirably on both counts. The abridgement has been carried out so sensitively that you don't spot the joins. The reading, by Shakespearean actor Alex Jennings, is superb. He is equally good whether he is rendering the north London yoof-speak of streetwise Millat Iqbal or the frightfully middle-class tones of Joyce Chalfens. He also brings out the humour that is on every page of Smith's novel, to the extent that you find yourself laughing out loud. The best thing about this audio version is that it doesn't matter whether you've read the book or not. If you have, this will add to your enjoyment of it. If you haven't, then you can enjoy it in its own right. (Kirkus UK)
About the Author
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Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975, and continues to live in the area. White Teeth is her first novel and has won awards for Best Book and Best Female Newcomer at the BT Emma Awards (Ethnic and Multicultural Media Awards), the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread Prize for a first novel in 2000, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction 2000, the WH Smith Book Award for New Talent, the Frankfurt eBook Award for Best Fiction Work Originally Published in 2000 and both the Commonwealth Writers First Book Award and Overall Commonwealth Writers Prize.
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Book Info
Format
Audio cassette
4 pages Running Time: 90 minutes
Author
Zadie Smith
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Publisher
Penguin Audiobooks an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Publication
date
25th October 2001
ISBN
9780141803463
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