White Teeth

Winner of the Guardian First Book Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction'Do believe the hype, buy into it, curl up with it, savour every sentence, then turn around and reread' The The TimesOne of the most talked about fictional d ts of recent years, White Teeth is a funny, generous, bighearted 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.'An impressive d t, not only for its vitality and verve, but mainly for the sheer audacity its scope and vision... an epic tale... swooping, funny ... it has ambition, wit and is unafraid' Meera Syal, Express'Relentlessly funny ... idiosyncratic, and deeply felt' Guardian'Hilarious ... Zadie Smith's cracked it bigstyle. Don't be scared of a future with someone this talented in it' i-D'An astonishingly assured d t, funny and serious ... I was delighted' Salman Rushdie'Extremely funny ... witty and fresh' Literary Review'Quirky, sassy and wise' The New York Times