description: Drawing you in with the immediacy of her tantalizing wit, Zadie Smith sets herself apart as a defining voice of contemporary literature. Her internationally acclaimed novel boldly and humorously bridges three London families across a cultural and generational divide. Archies life has disintegrated. Fresh from a dead marriage, middle-aged Archie stretches out a vacuum hose, seals up his car and prepares to die. But unbeknownst to him, his darkest hour is also his luckiest day. With the opening of a butchers shop, his life is saved and soon he is on his way to beginning a new life with a young Jamaican woman looking for the last man on earth. White Teeth has been selected as a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and Editors Choice by The New York Times Book Review, in addition to winning both the Guardian and Whitbread Awards. Smiths brilliant prose flows effortlessly with narrator Jenny Sterlins engaging voice.
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: Recorded Books