White Teeth by Zadie Smith

White Teeth by Zadie SmithAn unforgettable portrait of London and one of the most talked about debuts of all time!'The almost preposterous talent was clear from the first pages' Guardian On New Years Day 1975, the day of his almost suicide, life said yes to Archie Jones. Not OK or 'You might as well carry on since you've started'. A resounding affirmative. Promptly seizing his second life by the horns, Archie meets and marries Clara Bowden, a Caribbean girl twenty eight years

His sharp-edged forceful language derives from his gifts as a performance poet and his fearlessness in looking into the eye of his subject matter

Yeats among them

Everywhere you look

'Hands-down the best debut I've read in years' The Times

'An intricate story of love

American and Canadian troops were dropped from the sky or came ashore

where he has to battle monsters in quiet Dublin bookshops and constantly struggle to contain the new powers he has been given by Mercy

More than a century after these events

it includes poems on wanderlust

why the fight for the Pacific is just beginning

and the equally powerful taboos

My name is Molly and I'm going on a holiday all around Ireland