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White Teeth Zadie Smith

White Teeth By Zadie Smith

White Teeth by Zadie Smith


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Summary

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, this book is written with a passion for ideas, for language and for the rich tragic-comedy of life.

White Teeth Summary

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

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.

White Teeth Reviews

She is . . . a George Eliot of multi-culturalism * Daily Telegraph *
The first publishing sensation of the millennium * Observer *
White Teeth reflects a new generation * Guardian *

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

* Sunday Times *

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.

Additional information

GOR000297016
9780140276336
0140276335
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Used - Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
2001-01-25
560
Winner of Betty Trask Award 2001 Winner of WH Smith Book Awards: New Talent 2001 Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: First Novel Category 2000 Winner of Guardian First Book Award 2000 Winner of Whitbread Prize (First Novel) 2000 Short-listed for Whitbread Book Awards: Book of the Year 2000 Short-listed for Orange Prize for Fiction 2000
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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