About the book: 2005 / “White Teeth” by Zadie Smith is one of the brightest and most successful debut novels to appear in British literature in recent years. A brilliant comic tale that tells of friendship, love, war, an earthquake, three cultures, three families over three generations and one very unusual mouse. “...an original talent, who knows the language of the street and university classrooms, is daring and philosophical at the same time...” - New York Times.