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

An astonishingly assured début, funny and serious ... I was delighted

Salman Rushdie

Relentlessly funny ... idiosyncratic, and deeply felt

Guardian

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

[White Teeth] established a model for how to make sense-and art-out of the complexity, diversity and pluck that have defined the beginning of this century

Time

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

An astonishingly assured début, funny and serious ... I was delighted

Salman Rushdie

Relentlessly funny ... idiosyncratic, and deeply felt

Guardian