White Teeth

White Teeth
ISBN-10
1586638572
ISBN-13
9781586638573
Series
White Teeth
Category
Great Britain
Pages
63
Language
English
Published
2003
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Authors
Zadie Smith, Nina Shen Rastogi

Description

Twenty-four-year-old Zadie Smith burst into the public eye with this debut novel, which shows blazing flashes of wit and precocious insight. Here's the full, inside story behind this remarkable work: Where did Smith get the idea for the story? What does the novel say about history and how it affects ordinary people? Can we ever really escape the past? How has Smith reacted to becoming such a media sensation?

Other editions

Similar books

  • White Teeth
    By Zadie Smith

    At the centre of this novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of...

  • Zadie Smith's White Teeth
    By Claire Squires

    Offers an accessible and informative introduction to the popular novel.

  • White Teeth
    By Zadie Smith

    White Teeth

  • The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks
    By Susan Casey

    He described being caught out on the far side of the islands when thirty-foot swells rose up and barely making it back in one piece, though the weather had been lovely when he'd left the harbor that morning. And by all accounts, ...

  • The Autograph Man: A Novel
    By Zadie Smith

    With fries. The Autograph Man is a deeply funny existential tour around the hollow trappings of modernity: celebrity, cinema, and the ugly triumph of symbol over experience.

  • White Teeth
    By Okot p'Bitek

    First published in Acoli as Lak Tar, this novel from the late Ugandan author of Song of Lawino, Song of Ocol and other major works, is the story of society...

  • White Teeth by Zadie Smith (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    By Bright Summaries

    Her other works include the novels On Beauty and Swing Time, and the essay collections Changing My Mind and Feel Free. Find out everything you need to know about White Teeth in a fraction of the time!

  • London Fictions
    By Jerry White, Andrew Whitehead

    Two dozen contemporary writers, from Cathi Unsworth to Courttia Newland, reflect on some of the novelists and the novels that have helped define the modern city, from George Gissing to Zadie Smith, Hangover Square to Brick Lane.

  • Sociolinguistics of literature: Nonstandard English in Zadie Smith's White Teeth
    By Daniela Wack

    This paper takes a look at these “linguistic inflections and their sociocultural nuances” and analyses various varieties of English that are employed in the novel.

  • Writers & Company
    By Eleanor Wachtel

    Writers & Company