"White Teeth" is still one of the most talked-about fictional debuts of recent years. Meet the Joneses and the Iqbals, two families brought together by friendship, tangled histories and the London suburb of Willesden Green..."White Teeth" deals with - among many other things - 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.