Genre
Social comedy
White Teeth
A sharp, generous London novel about families and futures.
Details
Subgenre
Multicultural family saga
Original publication
2000
Original publisher
Hamish Hamilton
Pages
464
Format
Paperback, hardcover and ebook editions
Language
English
Setting
North London across late twentieth-century decades
ISBN
9780375703867
Original title
White Teeth
About the book
Several families collide across friendship, immigration, science, religion and generational pressure in North London.
A lively choice for readers asking for multicultural London, family comedy, immigration, identity and big social novels.
Smith combines comic energy with serious questions about inheritance, assimilation and the stories families impose on children.
It works for readers who want contemporary literary fiction with breadth, wit and social texture.
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