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The Fraud is a historical novel based on the Tichborne case written by Zadie Smith and published by Penguin in 2023.
5 set 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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28 ago 2023 · Her new novel, “The Fraud,” is based on a celebrated 19th-century criminal trial, but it keeps one eye focused clearly on today’s political populism.
5 set 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.
7 dic 2023 · Both history and fiction hang in the balance. Through Eliza, the reader learns of the infamous Tichborne Trial, which unfolded over the 1860s and 1870s in Victorian England. The plaintiff, also known as the Claimant, purports to be one Sir Roger Tichborne, heir to a fortune.
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.
5 set 2023 · Zadie Smith on the problem of the good white woman. The Fraud, a Victorian novel for the post-Trump era, is elegant, flawed, and sharp as a knife. by Constance Grady. Sep 5, 2023, 5:00 AM PDT.
