{"product_id":"the-fraud","title":"The Fraud - Zadie Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e bestseller • \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eOne of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e10 Best Books of the Year • One of NPR's Best Books of the Year \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e• \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand BookPage \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e• One of Oprah Daily's Best Novels of 2023\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“[A] brilliant new entry in Smith’s catalog . . . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Fraud\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e is not a change for Smith, but a demonstration of how expansive her talents are.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTruth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 the 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom literary London to Jamaica’s sugarcane plantations, Zadie Smith weaves an enthralling story linking the rich and the poor, the free and the enslaved, and the comic and the tragic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Crowne Books","offers":[{"title":"ENG-US- English (United States)","offer_id":44591086108760,"sku":null,"price":10.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4146\/8760\/files\/9780593792643.jpg?v=1786601365","url":"https:\/\/crownebooks.com\/products\/the-fraud","provider":"Crowne Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}