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5. Sept. 2023 · The Fraud is Zadie’s first journey into historical fiction, basing her novel on a 19th-century scandal in England where an ordinary butcher claimed to be the presumed-dead heir to the Tichbourne fortune – Sir Roger Tichbourne.
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The Fraud is a historical novel based on the Tichborne case, a 19th-century trial involving a missing heir and a slave. It features Charles Dickens and other characters, and explores themes of truth, identity and populism.
From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who gets to tell their story—and who gets to be believed. It is 1873.
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7. Dez. 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.
The Fraud: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller Gebundene Ausgabe – 7. September 2023. Englisch Ausgabe von Zadie Smith (Autor) 3,7 2.137 Sternebewertungen. Alle Formate und Editionen anzeigen. Book of the Year 2023 according to New York Times, New Yorker, Guardian, Economist, Observer, The Spectator, Financial Times, Vogue, The Times, The ...
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5. Sept. 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. Beneath the ...
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.
