White Teeth - Zadie Smith Reviews

White Teeth is Zadie Smith's first and, dare I say it, finest book. It starts off in the 1970's and works its way to the present day, telling the story of the Jones and Iqbal families and how their lives are intertwined. It has elements of great humour and sadness and just plain silliness that seems to work. It works very well as an allegory, ...

Zadie Smith's debut novel White Teeth, a tale of multicultural and multiethnic London, spanning three generations, has attracted attention galore over the last few years. Recently I came across it in the library and decided that it was time to see what all the fuss was about. About the Author ...

Fantastic - Advantages: quirky - Disadvantages: none

Having read the eulogies heaped upon Zadie Smith by the Guardian's book reviewers, it was with considerable interest and anticipation that I began to read 'White Teeth'. After such lavish epithets as 'Britain's literary saviour' and 'Don't be afraid of a future with this in it' it would have been somewhat naïve ...

'White Teeth' is a good first effort from Zadie Smith, and i enjoyed reading this book, and had heard a lot of good things said about it; you only have to look at the sleeve to see this! I ended up buying it because i had to study it for an English Course at University, and i am glad i did get the chance to read it. 'White ...

I was disappointed, it didn't live up to the glowing recommendations - Advantages: Some funny moments - Disadvantages: Boring, Long Winded

Over-hyped - Advantages: Well written - Disadvantages: Boring, Long-winded

White Teeth by Zadie Smith pivots around the unlikely friendship of Alfred Archibald Jones and Samad Miah Iqbal who shared a tank in World War Two. The book sees the characters renewing their friendship, while both in marriages with women considerably younger than themselves, Samad has an arranged marriage with the ' the ...

‘White Teeth’ is Zadie Smith’s first novel, and well worth getting into. It has been awarded numerous prizes including the prestigious year 2000 Whitbread first novel award, and the Guardian First book award. I would not claim to be a huge reader, but do probably read more that your average teenager, yet was a bit dubious ...

'In the red corner...fresh out of Cambridge, weighing in at 121 lbs...Ladies and Gentleman.....it ZZZZAAAADDDDDIIIIIEEEEE SSSSMITTTTTTHHHHHHHAAAAAAAA!!!!! And in the blue corner...baying for her blood...weighing in at 30000000 lbs, Ladies and Gentleman....it's the Serious Literary Criticaaaaaaaa!' Despite winning the Whitbread ...

White Teeth by Zadie Smith won the Whitbread first novel award for 2000, some books that win awards are pretentious and difficult to read, but not this one. This is a book of true quality that will be read in the future for Literature and Social History degrees. This is simply a superb book that deserves all the lavish praise that has been ...

White Teeth is one of the best books I've read this year (and I've read loads already). The book won a Guardian book prize and deservedly so I think. The story centres around 3 families, one Bangladeshi, one family both English and West Indian and a Jewish family. The first section follows the history of Samad and Archie, two ...

Make a mental note of all the common wisdom on first novels, mull it over, then discard most of it before settling down to read White Teeth. It is one rollercoaster of a book. I was constantly turning to the back cover to make sure the author was "merely" 25 years old - at one point I was sure this was a publicity gimmick. White ...