num_pages: 542
description: One of the most talked about fictional debuts ever, 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.
language: English
title: White Teeth
titlecomplete: White Teeth
characters: Joyce Chalfen, Alfred Archibald Jones, Magid Iqbal, Mr Topps, Clara Bowden, Joshua Chalfen, Millat Zulfikar Iqbal, Irie Ambrosia Jones, Alsana Begum, Marcus Chalfen, Samad Miah Iqbal, Hortense Bowden
genres: Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Literature, Race, Classics, British Literature, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 152113
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