The Fraud: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller + Yapışkanlı Not Kağıdı

‘A writer at the peak of her powers’The TelegraphTruth and fiction.; Jamaica and Britain.; Who gets to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel.; Kilburn, 1873. The 'Tichborne Trial' has captivated the widowed Scottish housekeeper Mrs Eliza Touchet and all of England.; Readers are at odds over whether the defendant is who he claims to be - or an imposter.; Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her novelist cousin and his wives, this life and the next.; But she is also sceptical.; She suspects England of being a land of façades, in which nothing is quite what it seems.; Andrew Bogle meanwhile finds himself the star witness, his future depending on telling the right story.; Growing up enslaved on the Hope Plantation, Jamaica, he knows every lump of sugar comes at a human cost.; That the rich deceive the poor.; And that people are more easily manipulated than they realise.; Based on real historical events, The Fraud is a dazzling novel about how in a world of hypocrisy and self-deception, deciding what's true can prove a complicated task.; ‘It’s difficult to give any idea of how extraordinary this book is.; One of the great historical novels, certainly.; But has any historical novel ever combined such brilliantly researched and detailed history with such intensely imagined fiction? Or such a range of living, breathing, surprising characters with such an idiosyncratically structured narrative?’ Michael Frayn‘As always it is a pleasure to be in Zadie Smith’s mind, which, as time goes on, is becoming contiguous with London itself.; Dickens may be dead, but Smith, thankfully, is alive’New York Times‘Zadie Smith’s Victorian-set masterpiece holds a mirror up to Britain .; The Fraudis the genuine article’Independent‘Smith’s dazzling historical novel combines deft writing and strenuous construction in a tale of literary London and the horrors of slavery’GuardianSHOTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023Daha fazla göster