White Teeth Synopsis
The international bestseller and modern classic of multicultural Britain - an unforgettable portrait of London One of the most talked about debut novels of all time, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing - among many other things - with 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, it is a life-affirming, riotous must-read of a book.
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'Funny, clever ... and a rollicking good read' - Independent
'Do believe the hype, buy into it, curl up with it, savour every sentence, then turn around and re-read' - The Times
'An impressive debut, not only for its vitality and verve, but mainly for the sheer audacity of its scope and vision ... an epic tale ... swooping, funny ... it has ambition, wit and is unafraid' -- Meera Syal - Express
'Announces the debut of a preternaturally gifted new writer ... street-smart and learned, sassy and philosophical all at the same time' - The New York Times
'An astonishingly assured debut, funny and serious ... I was delighted '-- Salman Rushdie
'Relentlessly funny ... idiosyncratic, and deeply felt' - Guardian
She is . . . a George Eliot of multi-culturalism - Daily Telegraph
About Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975, and continues to live both there and in New York, where she teaches on the Creative Writing programme at NYU.
White Teeth was first published in 2000 and won the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread Prize for a First Novel, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, 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.
Zadie Smith's other novels are The Autograph Man and On Beauty, which was shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize 2005 and won The Orange Prize for Fiction 2006. She is also author of a collection of essays, Changing my Mind, and the editor of a book of short stories, The Book of Other People.
Her most recent novel is NW.
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