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27 ago 2023 · He is the one simple soul in a story otherwise littered with complicated portraits. Every few pages I was struck by how light the novel feels, despite its length and epic themes. The short ...
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.
9 set 2023 · The Fraud matters because it unearths stories that need to be told, and because it asks a lot of important questions in both the unearthing and the telling. This is a novel packed with great ...
5 set 2023 · The Fraud is not a change for Smith, but a demonstration of how expansive her talents are.” — Los Angeles Times 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.
30 ago 2023 · Zadie Smith is clever enough to make anything sound plausible, but the most outrageous elements of her new novel, “ The Fraud ,” are actually true. In the 1860s, a butcher with a shadowy past ...
13 set 2023 · Book of the Year 2023 according to New York Times, New Yorker, Guardian, Economist, Observer, The Spectator, Financial Times, Vogue, The Times, The Oldie, i Paper, The Standard, Washington Post, Independent, Daily Express SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS’ PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 ONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKER’S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 LONGLISTED FOR THE ...
fraud n (deception) frode, truffa nf : imbroglio nm : The police arrested Richard for fraud. La polizia ha arrestato Richard per frode. fraud n (person) truffatore, imbroglione nm : ciarlatano nm : impostore nm : Erin's a fraud; she accepted that award, but someone else did the work.
