Zadie Smith's White Teeth is a classic international bestseller and an unforgettable portrait of London One of the most talked about fictional debuts ever, 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. 'Funny, clever ... and a rollicking good read' Independent 'An astonishingly assured...

'White Teeth' is a comic epic of multicultural Britain which tells the story of immigrants in England over a period of 40 years.

Die komischen und herzerwärmenden Geschicke zweier rivalisierender Familien aus den USA und Großbritannien, die in eine große Krise geraten, als sich der Sohn der einen in die Tochter der anderen Familie verliebt.

Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful? Set in New England mainly and London partly, this title deals with a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs.

'Changing My Mind' finds Zadie Smith casting an acute eye over material both personal & cultural. This engaging collection of essays, some published here for the first time, reveals Smith as a passionate & precise essayist, equally at home in the world of great books & bad movies, family & philosophy, British comedians & Italian divas.

Zadie Smith's tragi-comic 'NW' follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan - after they've left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different lives. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their city is brutal, beautiful and complicated. Yet after a chance encounter they each find that the choices they've made, the people they once were and are now, can suddenly, rapidly unravel.