white teeth

Zadie Smith's debut novel, *White Teeth*, was published in January 2019, won the Guardian First Book Award and the Whitbread First Novel Award, was an instant bestseller, and received astonishing acclaim. *White Teeth* is one of the most talked-about fiction novels of all time. Funny, generous, and big-hearted, *White Teeth* is adored by critics and readers alike. It deals with—among other things—friendship, love, war, three cultures, three families over three generations, a brown mouse, and the insidious way the past comes back and bites you in the ankle. It is a life-affirming, thrilling must-read. 'Funny, clever... and a good, enjoyable read' The Independent 'A startlingly assured debut, funny and serious... I was delighted' Salman Rushdie 'The almost absurd talent was evident from the first pages' Julian Barnes, The Guardian 'Eccentric, cheeky and wise... a substantial, interesting and popular production reminiscent of the books of Dickens and Salman Rushdie... demonstrates an instinctive narrative gift and a full voice that is at once intelligent, learned, cheeky and philosophical' New York Times

"Smith writes like an old hand and, at times, like a dream." The New Yorker

"Outstanding... a brilliantly intelligent and strikingly funny book with a passion for ideas, language and the rich tragicomedy of life." Sunday Telegraph

"Truthful exaggeration" The Times

"Relentlessly funny... eccentric, deeply felt" The Guardian

Zadie Smith was born in northwest London in 1975. Her first novel, White Teeth, won the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Guardian First Book Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, and the Commonwealth Writers' First Book Award, and was included in TIME's list of the 100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005. Her second novel, On Beauty, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction. She has written two further novels, *Sign Man* and *NW*, an essay collection *Changing My Mind*, and edited the short story anthology *The Other People's Book*. Granta magazine chose her as one of the twenty best young British novelists in 2003, and she has also contributed to the New Yorker and the Guardian.