White Teeth
One of the most talked about fictional debuts of recent years, 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.
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What you might want to know about White Teeth
The questions readers send us most often, answered without spoilers.
On New Year's morning 1975, working-class Englishman Archie Jones tries to kill himself in his Cricklewood car and is interrupted by a halal butcher.
Yes. White Teeth was Zadie Smith's debut, published in 2000 when she was 24 years old. It became a global bestseller and won several major prizes.
It won the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
White Teeth was written by Zadie Smith, published in 2000 by QPD.
White Teeth is 528 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, White Teeth takes most readers 8 to 11 hours to finish.
White Teeth is a standalone novel by Zadie Smith, not part of a series.
White Teeth is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.