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La Impostura / The Fraud
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ISBN13: 9788419456731
Publisher: Salamandra
Published: Feb 18 2025
Pages: 480
Weight: 0.81
Language: Spanish
«Dickens puede estar muerto, pero Zadie Smith está absolutamente viva. The New York Times
«Una autora en la cima de su talento. The Telegraph
Recibida con elogios entusiastas por la crítica del Reino Unido y Estados Unidos, que la ha considerado de forma unánime uno de los mejores libros del años, La impostura supone el regreso a la novela de Zadie Smith, siete años después de Tiempos de swing y un cuarto de siglo después de su irrupción en el panorama literario con Dientes blancos. Llena de vida, ideas, humor, sentimientos y algo semejante a una verdad moral, La impostura narra con extraordinaria habilidad las controversias sociales del Londres victoriano a través de un puñado de personajes memorables.
Corre el año 1873. La escocesa Eliza Touchet es la prima y ama de llaves de William Ainsworth, un novelista antaño famoso pero ahora en decadencia, con quien vive desde hace treinta años. Mujer de múltiples intereses --la literatura, la justicia, el abolicionismo, las clases sociales y las esposas de su primo--, Eliza se entusiasma con un intrigante juicio que está levantando encendidas pasiones en Londres: sir Roger Tichborne, heredero de un enorme imperio y desaparecido en el mar años antes, ha reaparecido de repente y reclama lo que le corresponde. En particular, a Eliza le llama la atención Andrew Bogle, testigo clave en el juicio, y quiere saberlo todo sobre él. Criado como esclavo en las plantaciones de azúcar de Jamaica y sirviente de la familia Tichborne durante décadas, Bogle es el hombre que puede confirmar o desmentir las increíbles pretensiones del aspirante a la fortuna de los Tichborne.
Vertiginosa exploración de los engaños y autoengaños de la condición humana, La impostura nos adentra en un fascinante mundo victoriano en el que realidad y ficción se mezclan con vigor. Una novela con resonancias muy contemporáneas en la que una heroína inolvidable se atreve a enfrentarse al brutal pasado colonial de Inglaterra.
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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
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. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper--and cousin by marriage--of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years.
Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully and a moralist; and England of being a land of facades, in which nothing is quite what it seems.
Andrew Bogle, meanwhile, grew 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 realize. When Bogle finds himself in London, star witness in a celebrated case of imposture, he knows his future depends on telling the right story.
The Tichborne Trial--wherein a lower-class butcher from Australia claimed he was in fact the rightful heir of a sizable estate and title--captivates Mrs. Touchet and all of England. Is Sir Roger Tichborne really who he says he is? Or is he a fraud? Mrs. Touchet is a woman of the world. Mr. Bogle is no fool. But in a world of hypocrisy and self-deception, deciding what is real proves a complicated task. . . .
Based on real historical events, The Fraud is a dazzling novel about truth and fiction, Jamaica and Britain, fraudulence and authenticity and the mystery of other people.
[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
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