White Teeth: Reader's Companion

"An impressive debut, not only for its vitality and verve, but mainly for the sheer audacity of its scope and vision...an epic that spans three continents, three generations, wars and independence struggles, matriarchal struggles, stroppy teenagers...[Smith] brings together this group of people and makes every one of them pulse with a unique history." - Meera Syal, Express "Relentlessly funny. An idiosyncratic and deeply felt epic...At its heart are two generations of two families: one white-and-Jamaican and the other Bangladeshi...A major new talent" - Maya Jaggi, Guardian "One of the most impressive first novels of recent years" - Observer "Outstanding" - Sunday Telegraph "A huge, teeming, multi-layered brew of a book" - Independent

She is . . . a George Eliot of multi-culturalism ( Daily Telegraph )

The first publishing sensation of the millennium ( Observer )

White Teeth reflects a new generation ( Guardian )

[Zadie Smith] is one of the prominent voices of her generation ( Sunday Times )