num_pages: 691
description: The award-winning début novel of Zadie Smith, now a successful TV series, White Teeth tells the story of three families, one Indian, one white, one mixed, in London and Oxford from World War II to the present.When Archie Jones's suicide attempt on New Year's Day 1975 is stymied by a finicky butcher, his life is changed forever. Lamenting the break-up of his marriage, the distraught and disoriented Archie wanders into an end-of-the-world party where he meets his next wife. Jamaican Clara Bowden is 19 to Archie's 47, at six feet tall she towers over him, and she's missing all her upper teeth, the result of a motorcycle mishap. Nonetheless, six weeks later they are married.And so begins Smith's frenetic, riotous, unruly tale, which hopes, skips, and jumps from one end of the century to the other.
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: 152152
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: Isis Publishing