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THE FRAUD

Smith, Zadie

Εκδότης Penguin , ISBN 9780241983096

Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel.

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 realise.

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' 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.'

Περίληψη

Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel.

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 realise.

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' 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.'

Πληροφορίες προϊόντος

  • Συγγραφέας Smith, Zadie
  • Eκδότης Penguin
  • ISBN 9780241983096
  • Κωδικός Ευριπίδη 040100086956
  • Έτος κυκλοφορίας 2024
  • Σελίδες 464
  • Διαστάσεις 20χ13
  • Βάρος 350 gr

Smith, Zadie

Συγγραφέας

H Zadie Smith γεννήθηκε το 1975 στο Λονδίνο όπου και ζει μέχρι σήμερα. Σπούδασε αγγλική φιλολογία στο Κέμπριτζ. Το 2003 συμπεριλήφθηκε στη λίστα των 20 καλύτερων νέων συγγραφέων του περίβλεπτου λογοτεχνικού περιοδικού Granta. Το πρώτο της μυθιστόρημα, "Λευκό χαμόγελο σε μαύρο φόντο" τιμήθηκε με τα βραβεία Guardian for first book, Whitbread First Novel, Whitbread Book of the Year, James Tait Black Memorial, British Book Awards Newcomer of the Year, Frankfurt eBook Award και Commonwealth Writer's First Book ενώ και το δεύτερο της βιβλίο, "Συλλέκτης αυτογράφων", δεν πέρασε απαρατήρητο. Τιμήθηκε με το βραβείο Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize for Fiction, ενώ ήταν υποψήφιο για τα βραβεία Orange και Booker. Το "Στην ομορφιά που χάνεται" είναι το αποτέλεσμα των προσπαθειών και της συγγραφικής ωριμότητάς της αφού τιμήθηκε το 2006 με τα βραβεία Orange, Somerset Maugham και Commonwealth Writers' Regional Award ενώ ήταν υποψήφιο για τα βραβεία Booker και IMPAC. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975. She is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty and NW, as well as The Embassy of Cambodia and a collection of essays, Changing My Mind. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. White Teeth won multiple literary awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. On Beautywas shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and NW was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and lives in London and New York with her husband and two children.

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