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White Teeth (Penguin Essentials)
Zadie Smith
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Description for White Teeth (Penguin Essentials)
Paperback. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 111. .
From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Swing Time, On Beauty and Grand Union 'BELIEVE THE HYPE' The Times 'The almost preposterous talent was clear from the first pages' Julian Barnes, Guardian 'Street-smart and learned, sassy and philosophical all at the same time' New York Times 'Outstanding' Sunday Telegraph The international bestseller and modern classic of multicultural Britain - an unforgettable portrait of London One of the most talked about debut novels of all time, 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.
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Penguin Essentials
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241981399
SKU
V9780241981399
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About Zadie Smith
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, and a collection of essays, Changing My Mind, and editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. White Teeth won multiple awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. On Beauty was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and NW was shortlisted for 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.
Reviews for White Teeth (Penguin Essentials)
Relentlessly funny ... idiosyncratic, and deeply felt
Guardian
An astonishingly assured debut, funny and serious ... I was delighted
Salman Rushdie 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 impressive debut, 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
Do believe the hype, buy into it, curl up with it, savour every sentence, then turn around and re-read
The Times
Funny, clever ... and a rollicking good read
Independent
Guardian
An astonishingly assured debut, funny and serious ... I was delighted
Salman Rushdie 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 impressive debut, 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
Do believe the hype, buy into it, curl up with it, savour every sentence, then turn around and re-read
The Times
Funny, clever ... and a rollicking good read
Independent