White Teeth: The iconic, award-winning modern classic celebrates its 25th anniversary
Jan 2001 · Penguin UK
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One of the most iconic fictional debuts of all time turns 25 this year!
‘What’s past is prologue...’
First published in the year 2000, Zadie Smith’s White Teeth was one of the most celebrated novels of the new millennium. Adored by critics and readers alike, it remains a perennial bestseller, which still delights with the audacity of its scope and vision, its fresh-minted style, and the wit and warmth of its voice.
Funny, generous and big-hearted, it deals – 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.
A life affirming, riotous must-read of a book, it won the Guardian First Book Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread First Novel Award.
‘Curl up with it, savour every sentence, then turn around and reread’ The Times
‘The outstanding debut of the new millennium’ Observe
‘What’s past is prologue...’
First published in the year 2000, Zadie Smith’s White Teeth was one of the most celebrated novels of the new millennium. Adored by critics and readers alike, it remains a perennial bestseller, which still delights with the audacity of its scope and vision, its fresh-minted style, and the wit and warmth of its voice.
Funny, generous and big-hearted, it deals – 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.
A life affirming, riotous must-read of a book, it won the Guardian First Book Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread First Novel Award.
‘Curl up with it, savour every sentence, then turn around and reread’ The Times
‘The outstanding debut of the new millennium’ Observe
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October 3, 2011
-Adored this book; felt like I was reading a younger, female version of Salman Rushdie or Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, minus the magical realism
-Beautifully weaves together a narrative that is lush, rich, and intoxicating
-I hate using tropes like "I couldn't put it down", but I really couldn't. I burned through over 500 pages in a week & then wanted to re-read it
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October 24, 2015
Really enjoyed this book. Even if Samad's time line doesn't exactly make sense. If he broke his hand in WW1 he would have been about 80 by 1975. Perhaps that was intentional by the author though? Really laughed and was transfixed by the novel.
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June 13, 2012
Studied this book for A-Levels, glad I did. Smith presents a humorous take on religion, culture, loyalty, life and etc.
About the author
Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia; three collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free and Intimations; 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. The Fraud is her first historical novel.
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