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White Teeth

Author: Zadie Smith   Series: Penguin Essentials

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Zadie Smith's astonishingly accomplished first novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time

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Zadie Smith's astonishingly accomplished first novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time

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Description

Zadie Smith's astonishingly accomplished first novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first timeEarly in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood BroadwayOne of the most talked about first novels ever, 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.

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Critic Reviews

“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 d”

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
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
[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

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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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Back Cover

'While he slipped in and out of consciousness, the position of the planets, the music of the spheres, the flap of a tiger-moth's diaphanous wings in Central Africa, and a whole bunch of other stuff that Makes Shit Happen had decided it was second-chance time for Archie . . .' When fate steps in and roundly ruins divorced forty-seven-year-old Archie Jones' suicide attempt, he seizes his second life by the horns and promptly meets and marries Clara Bowden, a Caribbean girl twenty-eight years his junior. Thus begins a tale of friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations . . . 'Buy into it, curl up with it, savour every sentence, then turn around and re-read' The Times

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Published
1st June 2017
Pages
560
ISBN
9780241981399

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