Book description
Zadie Smith's White Teeth is a classic international
bestseller and an unforgettable portrait of London
One of the most talked about fictional d buts 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 d but, 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
Zadie 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.
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.
