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 *Relentlessly funny … idiosyncratic, and deeply felt * Guardian *An astonishingly assured début, funny and serious … I was delighted – Salman RushdieShe 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, 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.