Zadie Smith The Fraud-骗局

这部万花筒般的小说发生在十九世纪末的伦敦，围绕一个自称是财富继承人的男子的审判展开。在小说中，扎迪·史密斯讲述了一位管家在观察其他人对此案的看法时的印象，这些看法震惊了众人、并导致了公众的分裂，而一名来自牙买加、曾经为奴的人的证词使这件事变得更加复杂。

《The Fraud》讲述了一个庞大的故事，充满了对上层阶级的虚伪、怀疑制度的人物、以及当代民粹主义拳击言论的推论的攻击。史密斯以其特有的才华，使故事的许多部分连贯起来。“人为错误和唯利是图随处可见，教堂并不完美，残酷行为司空见惯，权力腐败，弱者走投无路，”管家反思道。

书名：The Fraud《骗局》

作者：Zadie Smith

简介：The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith

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.'