The fraud

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Sinopse

Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story?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 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.From 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.

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Autor: Zadie Smith

Autor

ZADIE SMITH

Zadie Smith nasceu em Londres, em 1975. É editora da coleção The Book of Other People e escritora de prosa, tendo lançado romances, ensaios e contos, além de uma novela e uma peça. No Brasil, pela editora Companhia das Letras, publicou os romances Dentes brancos (2003), Sobre a beleza (2007) e A Fraude (2025).