Zadie Smiths White Teeth" is a classic international bestseller & an unforgettable portrait of London. One of the most talked about fictional debuts of ever " White Teeth" is a funny generous big-hearted novel adored by critics & readers alike. Dealing
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- with friendship love war three cultures & three families over three generations one brown mouse & the tricky way the past has of coming back & 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 & serious.. .I was delighted". (Salman Rushdie). " The almost preposterous talent was clear from the first pages". (Julian Barnes " Guardian"). " Quirky sassy & wise.. .a big splashy populous production reminiscent of books by Dickens & Salman Rushdie.. .demonstrates both an instinctive storytelling talent & a fully fashioned voice thats street-smart & learned sassy & philosophical all at the same time". (" New York Times"). " Smith writes like an old hand & sometimes like a dream". (" New Yorker"). " Outstanding.. .A strikingly clever & funny book with a passion for ideas for language & for the rich tragic-comedy of life". (" Sunday Telegraph"). " Do believe the hype". (" The Times"). " Relentlessly funny.. .idiosyncratic & 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 & the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize & 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 & won the Orange Prize for Fiction. She has written two further novels " The Autograph Man" & "NW" a collection of essays " Changing My Mind" & also edited a short-story anthology " The Book of Other People"."