White Teeth by Zadie Smith - ISBN: 9780140276336
Paperback
Three families, three cultures, one brown mouse, and life’s bite.

White Teeth

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  • Paperback

    560 pages

  • Release Date

    25 January 2001

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Summary

Most highly praised debut novel in recent years

One 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.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780140276336
ISBN-10:0140276335
Author:Zadie Smith
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:560
Edition:1st
Release Date:25 January 2001
Weight:387g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 34mm
Series:Penguin Essentials
What They're Saying

Critics Review

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 *

About The Author

Zadie Smith

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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