White Teeth
Zadie Smith
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
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Reviews for White Teeth
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
Relentlessly funny ... idiosyncratic, and deeply felt
Guardian
An astonishingly assured début, funny and serious ... I was delighted
Salman Rushdie 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