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I'd previously read On Beauty by Zadie Smith but went back to White Teeth, the debut which won so many awards on release in 2000, to see what all the fuss was about.
In short, the maturity of Smith's prose is astonishing, seemingly fully-formed by her early twenties, as she brings the zeitgeist of interracial Britain in the 1980's to life. Characters are developed with deep authenticity and the reader is carried along by intelligent, informative writing and great wit.
As with On Beauty, I found myself slightly fatigued by the latter stages but, even so, there's no longer any mystery as to why this book and this writer caused such a literary stir at the turn of the millennium.
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10 authors picked White Teeth as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
One of the most talked about fictional debuts of recent years, "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.
