White Teeth

The iconic, award-winning modern classic celebrates its 25th anniversary

Preview

Failed to add items

Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.

Add to basket failed.

Please try again later

Add to wishlist failed.

Please try again later

Remove from wishlist failed.

Please try again later

Adding to library failed

Please try again

Follow podcast failed

Unfollow podcast failed

Get 30 days of Standard free

£5.99/mo after trial. Cancel monthly.

Try for £0.00

More purchase options

White Teeth

By: Zadie Smith

Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner, Ray Panthaki, Lenny Henry, Sagar Arya

Try for £0.00

£5.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for £10.88

Summary

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.

Zadie SmithPippa Bennett-WarnerRay PanthakiLenny HenrySagar AryaPenguin

City Life

Family Life

Fiction

Friendship

Genre Fiction

Literary Fiction

Urban

Women's Fiction

Funny

Heartfelt

Thought-Provoking

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

Most relevant

I found it an odd production choice to have four different narrators. Yes the book is divided into four sections which focus the story on different characters, but it is a third person narrative which means that the whole cast of characters is given a makeover by the new narrator.

I really enjoyed the characterisations given by Sagar Area and Pippa Bennett-Warner. Sagar's Samad Iqbal was terrific and Pippa's voicing of the younger characters was brilliant. However, like many other reviewers, I felt let down by the fourth and final narrator who seems to have made the conscious decision not to distinguish between characters (with the exception of Mickey) and gave a listless performance to much of the narration. This, unfortunately, made the story hard to follow and detracted somewhat from the climax of the novel.

The novel as a whole was very different to what I had expected (not in an unpleasant way), spanning several decades and generations of the two main families and having moments of real humour to drive the story along.