The Fraud: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller by Zadie Smith Paperback Book

Description: The Fraud by Zadie Smith The chronicler of contemporary London, acclaimed and bestselling author Zadie Smith, returns with her first historical novel FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 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 the Jamaicas sugar-cane plantations, Zadie Smith weaves an enthralling story linking the rich and the poor, the free and the enslaved, and the comic and the tragic. Author Biography Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia; three collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free and Intimations; a collection of short stories, Grand Union; and the play, The Wife of Willesden, adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London, where she still lives. The Fraud is her first historical novel. Review No one understands humans better. As this novel shows, there is no better guide to people and their bottomlessness than Smith herself * iNews *This was really delightful. 10/10. Zadie Smith is a genius -- Brandon Taylor author of The Late AmericansA novel full of people, ideas, humour, feeling and something like moral truth – the stuff of life * Evening Standard *Searingly original [and] virtuosic . . . the book masterfully depicts post-emancipation Britain as it ruptures along faultlines of class and race * Vogue *Brilliant. A Dickensian delight * Los Angeles Times *The Fraud is unlike anything youll read this year: a charismatic, cerebral novel that asks us to consider the greatest fraud of all, that of one man claiming to hold the key to anothers freedom * Irish Times *Affecting and devastating . . . In typical Zadie style, the narrative structure and decade leaping require you to pay attention – but youre heavily rewarded with the sheer breadth of the novel and its vividly painted characters * Independent, 24 best summer books 2024 *A wonderful meditation on truth and falsehood, and the boundaries between fact and fiction * Spectator *A big, rich saga, tumbling with characters and big issues (feminism, slavery, truth) * The Times, Best Novels of 2023 *The Fraud is a complex mosaic of interweaving plots . . . The novel pulls off the trick of being both splendidly modern and authentically old and the characters are varied and entertaining * Independent, Best Books of 2023 *Ambitious in both style and subject matter, and bursting with Smiths trademark sprightly dialogue, The Fraud is also very funny * Guardian, Summer reading * Details ISBN0241983096 Author Zadie Smith Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Year 2024 ISBN-13 9780241983096 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-06-06 Imprint Penguin Books Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 823.92 Audience General UK Release Date 2024-06-06 ISBN-10 0241983096 Subtitle The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller Pages 464 NZ Release Date 2024-09-10 AU Release Date 2024-09-10 Alternative 9780241336991 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161460243;

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