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ISBN10: 0525558985
ISBN13: 9780525558989
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Sep 3 2024
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.98 Width: 5.59 Depth: 8.43
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780525558989
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Sep 3 2024
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.98 Width: 5.59 Depth: 8.43
Language: English
The New York Times bestseller - One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year - One of NPR's Best Books of the Year - Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and BookPage - One of Oprah Daily's Best Novels of 2023
[A] brilliant new entry in Smith's catalog . . . The Fraud is not a change for Smith, but a demonstration of how expansive her talents are. --Los Angeles Times
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 the 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 Jamaica's sugarcane plantations, Zadie Smith weaves an enthralling story linking the rich and the poor, the free and the enslaved, and the comic and the tragic.
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