FRAUD, THE - SMITH, Zadie

Autor: SMITH, Zadie

Editorial: PENGUIN

EAN: 9780241983096

Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story?\n\nIn 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 star witness. Watching the proceedings, and with her own story to tell, is Eliza Touchet – cousin, housekeeper and perhaps more – to failing novelist William Harrison Ainsworth.\n\nFrom literary London to the Jamaica’s sugar-cane plantations, Zadie Smith weaves an enthralling story linking the rich and the poor, the free and the enslaved, and the comic and the tragic.\n\n\n