White Teeth

White Teeth

by ZadieSmith (Author)

Synopsis

In the author's words, this is "an attempt at a comic family epic of Little England into which an explosion of ethnic colour is injected", telling the story of three families, one Indian, one white, one mixed, in North London and Oxford from World War II to now.

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Format: Import
Pages: 480
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Published: 27 Jan 2000

ISBN 10: 024113997X
ISBN 13: 9780241139974
Book Overview: S 2001 Mail on Sunday / John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
Prizes: Winner of The Commonwealth Writer's Prize Best First Book Eurasia 2001 and WH Smith Book Awards: New Talent 2001 and Betty Trask Award 2001 and Whitbread Book Awards: First Novel Category 2000 and Guardian First Book Award 2000 and Whitbread Prize (First Novel) 2000. Shortlisted for Whitbread Book Awards: Book of the Year 2000 and Orange Prize for Fiction 2000.

Author Bio
Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time, as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia, and a collection of essays, Changing My Mind. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. White Teeth won multiple literary awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. On Beauty was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and NW was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.