White Teeth is the riotous love child of The Buddha in Suburbia and Middlemarch – full of plot twists and turns, and a world away from today’s autofiction debuts. The novel’s main characters are Alfred and Samad, two ageing second world war veterans with much younger wives, and horny rule-breaking children. The sheer brilliance, audacity and possibility of her story is the stuff of British literary legend. Smith was 21 years old and still at university when she was offered a six-figure book deal for the first 80 pages of the manuscript. There is no novel like White Teeth – both in terms of the book itself and the mythology that surrounded its publication in 2000.
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