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  • Published: 25 January 2001
  • ISBN: 9780140276336
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 560
  • RRP: $26.00
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White Teeth




Most highly praised debut novel in recent years

One of the most talked about fictional débuts 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.

  • Published: 25 January 2001
  • ISBN: 9780140276336
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 560
  • RRP: $26.00
Categories:

About the author

Zadie Smith

Date: 2013-08-06
Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975. She is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time, as well as The Embassy of Cambodia and the essay collection, Changing My Mind. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has twice been listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists. She has won the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award among many others, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and 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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Praise for White Teeth

She is . . . a George Eliot of multi-culturalism

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White Teeth reflects a new generation

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[Zadie Smith] is one of the prominent voices of her generation

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