White Teeth

The award-winning debut novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of On Beauty and The Fraud -- a big-hearted tale of family, friendship, identity and belonging in post-war England

A GUARDIAN BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY
WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL AWARD
WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR FICTION

‘What’s past is prologue…’

White Teeth is one of the most celebrated novels of the twenty-first century. Funny, generous and big-hearted, it deals – 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.

Praise for White Teeth:

‘An astonishingly assured début, funny and serious ... I was delighted’ Salman Rushdie

‘A preternaturally gifted new writer… street-smart and learned, sassy and philosophical all at the same time’ The New York Times

‘Curl up with it, savour every sentence, then turn around and reread’ The Times

‘The outstanding debut of the new millennium’ Observer

‘Funny, clever ... and a rollicking good read’ Independent

‘Smith is a master at detail…a postmodern Charles Dickens’ Washington Post

‘Smith has a real talent for comedy and a fond eye for human foibles’ Wall Street Journal

‘One of the prominent voices of her generation’ Sunday Times