The Fraud The Fraud

The Fraud

A Novel

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Publisher Description

The New York Times bestseller • One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year • One of NPR's Best Books of the Year Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and BookPage • One of Oprah Daily's Best Novels of 2023

“[A] brilliant new entry in Smith’s catalog . . . The Fraud is not a change for Smith, but a demonstration of how expansive her talents are.” —Los Angeles Times

From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who gets to tell their story—and who gets to be believed


Truth and fiction. 
Jamaica and Britain. 
Who gets to tell their story?

In her first historical novel, Zadie Smith transports the reader to a Victorian England transfixed by the real-life trial of the Tichborne Claimant, in which a cockney butcher, recently returned from Australia, lays claim to the Tichborne baronetcy, with his former slave Andrew Bogle as the star witness. Watching the proceedings, and with her own story to tell, is Eliza Touchet—cousin, housekeeper, and perhaps more to failing novelist William Harrison Ainsworth.

From literary London to Jamaica’s sugarcane plantations, Zadie Smith weaves an enthralling story linking the rich and the poor, the free and the enslaved, and the comic and the tragic.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2023
September 5
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
464
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
2.1
MB

Customer Reviews

Scott's take on things ,

My First Smith Novel

Smith’s writing is so beautiful. And the dialogue! Some of the middle sections veered too far from the center but it was a minor wobble in an otherwise fantastic book.

Bobaloo222 ,

Stream of consciousness writing not for me

This is the second acclaimed Zadie Smith book I’ve read. It will be my last. just don’t like her “stream of consciousness” writing style, and she bounces around in time, only occasionally clueing the reader into the timeline. The story is interesting and she is definitely talented, but her writing is not for me.

KissGirl789 ,

Quite an interesting read

The stories of the lives of William Ainsworth, Eliza Touchet, Sir Roger Tichborne and Andrew Bogle all intertwined to give us quite an interesting read and a unique novel…yet overly complex with no sense of real purpose.

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