White Teeth won multiple honors, including the 2000 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, the 2000 Whitbread Book Award in category best first novel, the Guardian First Book Award, the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize, and the Betty Trask Award. The novel centres on Britain's relationship with immigrants from the British Commonwealth. It focuses on the later lives of two wartime friends-the Bangladeshi Samad Iqbal and the Englishman Archie Jones-and their families in London. White Teeth is a 2000 novel by the British author Zadie Smith.