White Teeth

Most highly praised debut novel in recent yearsOne of the most talked about fictional debuts 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.

Winner of Betty Trask Award 2001 Winner of WH Smith Book Awards: New Talent 2001 Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: First Novel Category 2000 Winner of Guardian First Book Award 2000 Winner of Whitbread Prize (First Novel) 2000 Short-listed for Whitbread Book Awards: Book of the Year 2000 Short-listed for Orange Prize for Fiction 2000

“Praise for White Teeth "Zadie Smith's fizzing first novel is about how we all got here-from the Caribbean, from the Indian subcontinent, from thirteenth place in a long-ago Olympic bicycle race-and about what "here" turned out to be. It's an astonishingly assured debut, funny and serious, and the voice has real writerly idiosyncrasy. I was delighted by White Teeth and often impressed. It has . . . bite." -Salman Rushdie "A rich, ambitious, and often hilarious delight." - The Independent "This is a strikingly clever and funny book with a passion for ideas, for language, and for the rich tragicomedy of life. . . . [Smith's] characters always ring true; it is her ebullient, simple prose and her generous understanding of human nature that make Zadie Smith's novel outstanding. It is not only great fun to read, but full of hope." - Sunday Telegraph "A writer of mighty potential." - The Times Literary Supplement "Poised and relentlessly funny. . . . A major new talent." - The Guardian "Outstanding... refreshingly upbeat and deserving of all the attention it is getting." - The Evening Standard "Outstanding... not only great fun to read, but full of hope." - The Sunday Telegraph "The biggest literary talent for 2000... One of the most impressive first novels of recent years." - The Observer Magazine "Funny, clever... and a rollicking good read." - The Independent "Brilliantly written and hugely inspiring." - RED "A vibrant, multicultural extravaganza." - Marie Claire "The first publishing sensation of the millennium." - The Observer "Darting between decades, cultures and generations, this chronicle of immigrant London fizzes with life." - Good Housekeeping "Gleefully inventive... Zadie Smith's debut announces the debut of a significant new talent." - The List "Bounding, vibrant, richly imagined and thoroughly engaging." - The Telegraph "If you buy one book this year, WHITE TEETH should be it." - Livewire Magazine”

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
Relentlessly funny ... idiosyncratic, and deeply felt Guardian
An astonishingly assured début, funny and serious ... I was delighted -- Salman Rushdie
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

Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time, as well as three collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free and Intimations, and a collection of short stories, Grand Union.White Teeth won multiple awards, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. On Beauty was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and NW was shortlisted for 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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