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Published: 14 August 2017
ISBN: 9780241981399
Imprint: Penguin General UK
Format: Paperback
Pages: 560
RRP: $19.99

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White Teeth

Zadie Smith

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Zadie Smith's astonishingly accomplished first novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time.

Zadie Smith's White Teeth is a classic international bestseller and an unforgettable portrait of London, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time.

One of the most talked about fictional debuts ever, 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.

Pub date: 14 August 2017
ISBN: 9780241981399
Imprint: Penguin General UK
Format: Paperback
Pages: 560
RRP: $19.99

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About the Author

Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975. She is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time, as well as The Embassy of Cambodia and the essay collection, Changing My Mind. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has twice been listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists. She has won the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award among many others, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.

Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is a regular contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books.

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Praise for White Teeth

“Funny, clever ... and a rollicking good read”

Independent

“An astonishingly assured début, funny and serious . . . I was delighted”

Salman Rushdie

“The almost preposterous talent was clear from the first pages”

Julian Barnes, Guardian

“Quirky, sassy and wise . . . a big, splashy, populous production reminiscent of books by Dickens and Salman Rushdie . . . demonstrates both an instinctive storytelling talent and a fully fashioned voice that's street-smart and learned, sassy and philosophical all at the same time”

New York Times

“Smith writes like an old hand, and, sometimes, like a dream”

New Yorker

“Outstanding . . . A strikingly clever and funny book with a passion for ideas, for language and for the rich tragic-comedy of life”

Sunday Telegraph

“Do believe the hype”

The Times

“Relentlessly funny . . . idiosyncratic, and deeply felt”

Guardian