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Aug 28, 2023 · Her new novel, “The Fraud,” is based on a celebrated 19th-century criminal trial, but it keeps one eye focused clearly on today’s political populism.
Sep 5, 2023 · The Fraud is a novel by Zadie Smith that explores the themes of truth and fiction, Jamaica and Britain, and the mystery of 'other people' through three intertwined stories. One story follows Eliza Touchet, a Scottish housekeeper and cousin of a novelist, who suspects her cousin of being a fraud; another story follows Andrew Bogle, a former slave who testifies in the Tichborne trial, a famous case of imposture; and the third story follows the trial itself.
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Sep 5, 2023 · The Fraud leaps from stuffy English parlours to Jamaican sugar plantations, where African slaves lost their names, their loves and often their lives while toiling for the British. The effect is potent, as Ms Smith—a child of a white father and Jamaican mother—considers a worse fraud than a butcher’s claim to wealth.
Sep 9, 2023 · Penguin Press. Zadie Smith's The Fraud is a lot of things: a meticulously researched work of historical fiction, a smart narrative about the importance of truth and the...
The Fraud is a historical novel based on the Tichborne case written by Zadie Smith and published by Penguin in 2023.
Dec 7, 2023 · In the 1830s, Eliza Touchet and Ainsworth’s first wife, Frances (also Eliza’s lover, in an underdeveloped queer subplot), become abolitionists. When fugitive and manumitted black men testify to slavery’s horrors, the women believe them.
Sep 5, 2023 · Hannah’s new novel is an homage to the extraordinary courage and endurance of Frenchwomen during World War II. In 1995, an elderly unnamed widow is moving into an Oregon nursing home on the urging of her controlling son, Julien, a surgeon.
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