“It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.”
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One of the most talked about fictional debuts of recent years, 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.
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Zadie Smith
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“It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.”
“You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.”
“When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.”
“Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.”
“We are split people. For myself, half of me wishes to sit quietly with legs crossed, letting the things that are beyond my control wash over me. But the other half wants to fight a holy war....”
“In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.”