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Zadie Smith's astonishingly accomplished first novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time Early in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway One of the most talked about first novels ever, 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.

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Funny, clever ... and a rollicking good read Independent Do believe the hype, buy into it, curl up with it, savour every sentence, then turn around and re-read The Times An impressive debut, not only for its vitality and verve, but mainly for the sheer audacity of its scope and vision ... an epic tale ... swooping, funny ... it has ambition, wit and is unafraid -- Meera Syal Express Announces the debut of a preternaturally gifted new writer ... street-smart and learned, sassy and philosophical all at the same time The New York Times An astonishingly assured debut, funny and serious ... I was delighted -- Salman Rushdie Relentlessly funny ... idiosyncratic, and deeply felt Guardian

Relentlessly funny ... idiosyncratic, and deeply felt * Guardian * An astonishingly assured debut, funny and serious ... I was delighted -- Salman Rushdie Announces the debut of a preternaturally gifted new writer ... street-smart and learned, sassy and philosophical all at the same time * The New York Times * An impressive debut, not only for its vitality and verve, but mainly for the sheer audacity of its scope and vision ... an epic tale ... swooping, funny ... it has ambition, wit and is unafraid -- Meera Syal * Express * Do believe the hype, buy into it, curl up with it, savour every sentence, then turn around and re-read * The Times * Funny, clever ... and a rollicking good read * Independent *

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Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia; three collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free and Intimations; a collection of short stories, Grand Union; and the play, The Wife of Willesden, adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London, where she still lives. The Fraud is her first historical novel.

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