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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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The Fraud is a historical novel based on the Tichborne case written by Zadie Smith and published by Penguin in 2023.
28 ago 2023 · Zadie Smith Makes 1860s London Feel Alive, and Recognizable. Her new novel, “The Fraud,” is based on a celebrated 19th-century criminal trial, but it keeps one eye focused clearly on today’s...
5 set 2023 · 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.
7 dic 2023 · Who is the fraud of the title? Is it “The Claimant,” a butcher passing himself off as a baronet? Ainsworth, the minor novelist stealing his best ideas from the illustrator Cruikshank? Dickens, who likes “fictional people,” “those he can control” more than the “chaos” of “real life?”
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...
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 Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story?
