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  • Published: 30 July 2000
  • ISBN: 9780141939230
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 560
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White Teeth




Most highly praised debut novel in recent years

One of the most talked about fictional débuts of recent years, 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.

  • Published: 30 July 2000
  • ISBN: 9780141939230
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 560
Categories:

About the author

Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW, Swing Time and The Fraud; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia; four collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free, Intimations and Dead and Alive; a collection of short stories, Grand Union; and the play, The Wife of Willesden, adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London, where she still lives.

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Praise for White Teeth

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 début, 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 début, 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

[Zadie Smith] is one of the prominent voices of her generation

Sunday Times

Britain's finest young author

The List

[Zadie Smith] packs more intelligence, humour and sheer energy into any given scene than anyone else of her generation

Sunday Telegraph

[White Teeth] established a model for how to make sense-and art-out of the complexity, diversity and pluck that have defined the beginning of this century

Time

She is . . . a George Eliot of multi-culturalism

Daily Telegraph

The first publishing sensation of the millennium

Observer

White Teeth reflects a new generation

Guardian

[Zadie Smith] is one of the prominent voices of her generation

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