Truth and fiction. Jamaica a Britain. Who gets to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel. It is 1873. Mrs Eliza Touchet je scottish housekeeper - a cousin by manželstvo - z jedného slávneho novelistu, teraz v decline, William Ainsworth, s ktorou she has live pre tri roky. Mrs Touchet je žena mnohých interests: literatúra, justícia, abolitionism, class, her cousin, jeho wives, tento život a Next. Ale she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, z being a bully and moralista; a Anglicko, ktoré sa nachádzajú na fasádach, v ktorých nie je k dispozícii, čo je seems. Andrew Bogle meanwhile grew up prechádzky na Hope Plantation, Jamaica. 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. Keď Bogle hľadí himself v Londýne, hviezda witness v oslavovanej case 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 je žena z sveta. Mr Bogle aj s no fool. Ale vo svete hypocrisy a self-deception, definuje, čo je skutočný test a complicated task... Based on real historické udalosti, Fraud je dazzling novel o truth a fiction, Jamaica a Britain, fraudulencia a authenticity, a mystery of 'other people.'

Zadie Smith je author of the novels White Teeth, Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time; as well as a novel, The Embassy of Cambodia; tri kolekcie essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free and Intimations; a collection of short stories, Grand Union; a hrať, Wife of Willesden, adapted od Chaucer. Je to tiež editor z The Book of Other People. Zadie Smith bol born v north-west London, kde she still lives. The Fraud is her first historical novel.