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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of White Teeth by Zadie Smith, read by Lenny Henry, Sagar Arya, Pippa Bennett-Warner and Ray Panthaki.

From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Swing Time, On Beauty and Grand Union

'BELIEVE THE HYPE' The Times

'The almost preposterous talent was clear from the first pages' Julian Barnes, Guardian

'Street-smart and learned, sassy and philosophical all at the same time' New York Times

'Outstanding' Sunday Telegraph

The international bestseller and modern classic of multicultural Britain - an unforgettable portrait of London

One of the most talked about debut novels of all time, 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.

 City Life Family Life Fiction Friendship Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Urban Women's Fiction Funny Heartfelt Thought-Provoking

Critic reviews

Funny, clever ... and a rollicking good read
Do believe the hype, buy into it, curl up with it, savour every sentence, then turn around and re-read
An impressive début, 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)
Announces the debut of a preternaturally gifted new writer ... street-smart and learned, sassy and philosophical all at the same time
Relentlessly funny ... idiosyncratic, and deeply felt
An astonishingly assured début, funny and serious ... I was delighted (Salman Rushdie)
She is . . . a George Eliot of multi-culturalism
[Zadie Smith] is one of the prominent voices of her generation
Britain's finest young author
[Zadie Smith] packs more intelligence, humour and sheer energy into any given scene than anyone else of her generation
All stars
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This is a fantastic book performed brilliantly by all the narrators. The character are interesting. Funny, thought provoking, emotional and sad.

Wow best book I have listen to in ages.

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loved the story but the narrators for the same characters change throughout the book reading which was perplexing. sometimes, even the tone of the character changes almost as if the same reader continued reading in a different studio with a different sound deck set up. bur all readers were great. just inconsistent

uneven narrative

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Struggled with this. Well written and is obviously a 'good' story' but such a dull narrative. I found listening to it an effort. Unfortunately also that the final reader didn't use different voices for the actors.

Epic but dull story

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Great book, great production. The breadth of the story was huge and so many stands were teased out, then bought back together across a diverse set of lives.

great book

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I disagree with some of the reviews about the third narrator. I think that he was brilliant and he got the most difficult part of the book.

Very good

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