White Teeth

Zadie Smith

Penguin Books Limited, Jan 25, 2001 - Fiction - 541 pages

Zadie Smith's White Teeth is a classic international bestseller and an unforgettable portrait of LondonOne of the most talked about fictional débuts of 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.'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' GuardianZadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975. Her debut novel, White Teeth, won the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Guardian First Book Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, and the Commonwealth Writers' First Book Prize, and was included in TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. Her second novel, On Beauty, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction. She has written two further novels, The Autograph Man and NW, a collection of essays, Changing My Mind, and also edited a short-story anthology, The Book of Other People.

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Review: White Teeth

User Review  - Zainab Khawaja - Goodreads

Zadie Smith's first novel blew me away, but where exactly? The book starts of with an attempted suicide - definitely gripping. Throughout the book, Smith uses words to her advantage. No skimping, no ...

Review: White Teeth

User Review  - Sandra - Goodreads

This book reminded me of Rushdie's "Midnight's Children", which I also did not like very much. I didn't relate to the characters and had a hard time staying with the long and tedious tangents in the ...

About the author

Zadie Smith was born in North West London in 1975 and continues to live in the area. She is currently working on a second novel.

Bibliographic information

• Title: White Teeth; A Penguin Book: Fiction; Penguin Books; Penguin celebrations
• Author: Zadie Smith
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Penguin Books Limited, 2001
• ISBN: 0140276335, 9780140276336
• Length: 541 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General