Published in the first month of the first year of the new century,
Zadie Smith's debut novel White Teeth - winner of the Guardian
First Book Award and the Whitbread First Novel Award - was an
immediate bestseller and stunningly acclaimed. One of the most
talked about fictional debuts of 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. 'Funny, clever ... and a rollicking good read' Independent
'An astonishingly assured debut, funny and serious ... I was
delighted' Salman Rushdie 'The almost preposterous talent was clear
from the first pages' Julian Barnes, Guardian 'Quirky, sassy and
wise ... a big, splashy, populous production reminiscent of books
by Dickens and Salman Rushdie ... demonstrates both an instinctive
storytelling talent and a fully fashioned voice that's street-smart
and learned, sassy and philosophical all at the same time' New York
Times 'Smith writes like an old hand, and, sometimes, like a dream'
New Yorker 'Outstanding ... A strikingly clever and funny book with
a passion for ideas, for language and for the rich tragic-comedy of
life' Sunday Telegraph 'Do believe the hype' The Times
'Relentlessly funny ... idiosyncratic, and deeply felt' Guardian
Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975. Her debut 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 Prize, and was included in
TIME 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,
The Autograph Man and NW, a collection of essays Changing My Mind,
and also edited short story anthology The Book of Other People.
Zadie Smith was chosen by Granta as one of its twenty best young
British novelists in 2003, and as well as to Granta has contributed
writing to the New Yorker and the Guardian. Zadie Smith's new
novel, NW, is available from September 2012.
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