White Teeth: Sharmaine Lovegrove on Zadie Smith’s Literary Debut

Twenty Twenty: A Pop Culture Podcast by Message Heard

Oct 27, 202047:06Society & Culture

The new millennium brought with it a fresh wave of optimism and excitement for the future. Zadie Smith's best selling debut novel White Teeth embodied this mood and symbolised a changing of the guard. Smith was lauded wi...

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