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28 de ago. de 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.
The Fraud is a historical novel based on the Tichborne case written by Zadie Smith and published by Penguin in 2023.
5 de set. de 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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5 de set. de 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.
7 de dez. de 2023 · Who is the fraud of the title? Is it “The Claimant,” a butcher passing himself off as a baronet? Ainsworth, the minor novelist stealing his best ideas from the illustrator Cruikshank? Dickens, who likes “fictional people,” “those he can control” more than the “chaos” of “real life?”
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.
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.
