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Aug 28, 2023 · Fiction. Zadie Smith Makes 1860s London Feel Alive, and Recognizable. Her new novel, “The Fraud,” is based on a celebrated 19th-century criminal trial, but it keeps one eye focused clearly on...
Sep 5, 2023 · Based on real historical events, The Fraud is a dazzling novel about truth and fiction, Jamaica and Britain, fraudulence and authenticity, and the mystery of 'other people.'
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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 shortcomings of...
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.
About The Fraud. 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 . . .
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Sep 5, 2023 · Culture. 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. by Constance Grady. Sep 5, 2023, 5:00...
