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August 30, 2023. Zadie Smith is clever enough to make anything sound plausible, but the most outrageous elements of her new novel, “The Fraud,” are actually true. In the 1860s, a butcher with a shadowy past claimed that he was Sir Roger Tichborne, the presumed-dead son of Lady Tichborne and the heir to a vast fortune.
THE FRAUD, by Zadie Smith. This was one of the Book Review’s 10 best books of 2023. All over the dorm in California glinted pale-orange and tabasco-red and steel-blue copies of Zadie Smith’s ...
Penguin. Media type. Print, E-book, Audio. ISBN. 9780525558965. Website. Official website. The Fraud is a historical novel based on the Tichborne case written by Zadie Smith and published by Penguin in 2023.
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 It is ...
The Fraud. by Zadie Smith. reviewed by Bailey Sincox. Zadie Smith’s novels measure the weight of history as it is borne by ordinary people. Her first book, White Teeth, like Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, and Toni Morrison’s Beloved before it, told a national story ...
“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 shortcomings of perspective, and a tale that delves deeply into authenticity and justice . . . Smith’s knack for developing full secondary characters and her talent for descriptions and ...
Zadie Smith on the problem of the good white woman. The Fraud, a Victorian novel for the post-Trump era, is elegant, flawed, and sharp as a knife. The Fraud by Zadie Smith. Constance Grady is a ...
