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White Teeth

25th Anniversary Edition

Zadie Smith author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Publishing:30th Jan '25

£25.00

This title is due to be published on 30th January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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A stunning new edition of one of the most iconic fictional debuts of all time, to mark the 25th anniversary of this modern classic - perfect for any Zadie Smith fan!

‘What’s past is prologue…’

First published in the year 2000, Zadie Smith’s White Teeth was one of the most celebrated novels of the new millennium. Adored by critics and readers alike, it remains a perennial bestseller, which still delights with the audacity of its scope and vision, its fresh-minted style, and the wit and warmth of its voice.

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.

A life affirming, riotous must-read of a book, it won the Guardian First Book Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread First Novel Award.

‘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

Do believe the hype, buy into it, curl up with it, savour every sentence, then turn around and re-read—The Times

An impressive début, not only for its vitality and verve, but mainly for the sheer audacity of its scope and vision ... an epic tale ... swooping, funny ... it has ambition, wit and is unafraid—Meera Syal, Express

Announces the debut of a preternaturally gifted new writer ... street-smart and learned, sassy and philosophical all at the same time—The New York Times

Relentlessly funny ... idiosyncratic, and deeply felt—Guardian

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

She is . . . a George Eliot of multi-culturalism—Daily Telegraph

[Zadie Smith] is one of the prominent voices of her generation—Sunday Times

Britain's finest young author—The List

[Zadie Smith] packs more intelligence, humour and sheer energy into any given scene than anyone else of her generation—Sunday Telegraph

ISBN: 9781405965958

Dimensions: 242mm x 162mm x 49mm

Weight: 817g

560 pages