The Fraud

Resumen del libro

SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS' PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024ONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2024 A writer at the peak of her powers' The TelegraphTruth 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 Jamaica's 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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Zadie Smith x{0026}lt;/B (Londres, 1975) estudió Filología Inglesa en la Universidad de Cambridge. Miembro de la Royal Society of Literature y la American Academy of Arts and Letters, es profesora de narrativa en la Universidad de Nueva York y colabora habitualmente en x{0026}lt;I The New Yorker x{0026}lt;/I y en x{0026}lt;I The New York Review of Booksx{0026}lt;/I . En Salamandra ha publicado las novelas x{0026}lt;I Dientes blancosx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El cazador de autógrafosx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Sobre la bellezax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I NW Londonx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Tiempos de swingx{0026}lt;/I , los ensayos x{0026}lt;I Cambiar de ideax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Contemplaciones x{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Con total libertadx{0026}lt;/I , y las recopilaciones de relatos x{0026}lt;I El libro de los otrosx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Grand Unionx{0026}lt;/I .x{0026}lt;/P