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Libro Físico

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Zadie Smith

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Random House (Large Print)

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Inglés

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Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780593792643

The Fraud: A Novel (en Inglés)

Zadie Smith (Autor) · Random House (Large Print) · Tapa Blanda

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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."

Zadie Smith

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Zadie Smith (Reino Unido, 1975) es una novelista y ensayista británica nacida en Londres, hija de madre jamaicana y padre inglés. Su primera novela, White Teeth (2000), la catapultó al reconocimiento internacional y ganó el James Tait Black Memorial Prize, entre otros galardones. Otras obras relevantes incluyen On Beauty (finalista del Man Booker Prize y ganadora del Orange Prize for Fiction), NW y Swing Time. Smith es miembro de la Royal Society of Literature y profesora de escritura creativa en la Universidad de Nueva York.

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