White Teeth Summary
Zadie Smith

British writer Zadie Smith has published only two novels: White Teeth, winner of two major literary awards and with over one million copies in print, and The Autograph Man. Smith burst into the intern... Read more

In the following interview, Smith and Merritt discuss race, the success of White Teeth, and Smith's future works. The hype began in the autumn of 1997. Zadie Smith was 21 and just down from ... Read more

In the following review, Hodari commends the wit, lively spirit, and self-assured narrative of White Teeth, but argues that the novel lacks a strong focus and its ending seems contrived. Many peopl... Read more

In the following review, Lanchester examines White Teeth, focusing on the characters's searches for self-identity in culturally diverse England. In April 1990, Norman Tebbit, the former chai... Read more

In the following negative review, Longmore argues that the characters in White Teeth are not only unrealistically profound and introspective, but also unusually profane. Zadie Smith is a very impre... Read more

In the following interview, Smith discusses the tone of White Teeth, the effects of fame, and the differences between English and American attitudes on race and class. Everybody starts with white t... Read more

In the following review, Wood compares the verisimilitude of White Teeth with the standards for realism of contemporary fiction. I. A genre is hardening. It is becoming easy to describe the contemp... Read more

In the following review, Moseley assesses the depth and maturity of White Teeth, comparing Smith's sympathy for her characters and the role of her narrator to the similar traits of nineteenth-c... Read more