description: 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.
language: English
title: White Teeth
titlecomplete: White Teeth
characters: Joyce Chalfen, Magid Iqbal, Mr Topps, Alsana Begum, Millat Zulfikar Iqbal, Hortense Bowden, Alfred Archibald Jones, Marcus Chalfen, Irie Ambrosia Jones, Samad Miah Iqbal, Clara Bowden, Joshua Chalfen
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Race
ratings_count: 152177
places: England, London, England
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Guardian First Book Award, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Whitbread Award
category: First Novel, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Puddly Award
category: Debut Novel, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best First Book Overall, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Sunday Times/Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Betty Trask Award
publisher: Penguin Books, Limited (UK)