White Teeth (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Zadie Smith
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- Setting: London
- Principal Characters: Archie Jones, Clara Bowden, Irie, Samad Iqbal, Alsana, Magid Millat, Marcus Chalfen, Julia Chalfen
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Tradition, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Immigration or emigration, England or English people, London
- Locales: London, England
Praise for Zadie Smith’s debut novel, White Teeth, has been so nearly universal as to make the harshness of one notice all the more surprising—and sobering:
This kind of precocity in so young a writer has one half the audience standing to applaud and the other half wishing, as with child performers of the past (Shirley Temple, Bonnie Langford et al.), she would just stay still and shut up. White Teeth is the literary equivalent of a hyperactive, ginger-haired, tap-dancing 10-year-old.
Published anonymously in the English magazine Butterfly, this...
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