The fraud
| Title | The fraud |
|---|---|
| Author | Zadie Smith |
| Publication | Penguin |
| Size | 455p |
| Language |  ENG |
| ISBN | 9780241983096 |
| Topics |
English fiction--Historical Slaves--Fiction English fiction--Travel Jamaica --Fiction London (England)--Fiction London (England)--Fiction |
| Notes | 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 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.[goodreads] Genres |
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