La Impostura / The Fraud [Spanish]

By: Smith, Zadie

Zadie Smith regresa con fuerza a la ficci n con una gran novela sobre la Inglaterra victoriana.

«Dickens puede estar muerto, pero Zadie Smith est absolutamente viva. The New York Times

«Una autora en la cima de su talento. The Telegraph

Recibida con elogios entusiastas por la cr tica del Reino Unido y Estados Unidos, que la ha considerado de forma un nime uno de los mejores libros del a os, La impostura supone el regreso a la novela de Zadie Smith, siete a os despu s de Tiempos de swing y un cuarto de siglo despu s de su irrupci n en el panorama literario con Dientes blancos. Llena de vida, ideas, humor, sentimientos y algo semejante a una verdad moral, La impostura narra con extraordinaria habilidad las controversias sociales del Londres victoriano a trav s de un pu ado de personajes memorables.

Corre el a o 1873. La escocesa Eliza Touchet es la prima y ama de llaves de William Ainsworth, un novelista anta o famoso pero ahora en decadencia, con quien vive desde hace treinta a os. Mujer de m ltiples intereses --la literatura, la justicia, el abolicionismo, las clases sociales y las esposas de su primo--, Eliza se entusiasma con un intrigante juicio que est levantando encendidas pasiones en Londres: sir Roger Tichborne, heredero de un enorme imperio y desaparecido en el mar a os antes, ha reaparecido de repente y reclama lo que le corresponde. En particular, a Eliza le llama la atenci n Andrew Bogle, testigo clave en el juicio, y quiere saberlo todo sobre l. Criado como esclavo en las plantaciones de az car de Jamaica y sirviente de la familia Tichborne durante d cadas, Bogle es el hombre que puede confirmar o desmentir las incre bles pretensiones del aspirante a la fortuna de los Tichborne.

Vertiginosa exploraci n de los enga os y autoenga os de la condici n humana, La impostura nos adentra en un fascinante mundo victoriano en el que realidad y ficci n se mezclan con vigor. Una novela con resonancias muy contempor neas en la que una hero na inolvidable se atreve a enfrentarse al brutal pasado colonial de Inglaterra.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

The New York Times bestseller - One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year - One of NPR's Best Books of the Year - Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and BookPage - One of Oprah Daily's Best Novels of 2023

From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who gets to tell their story--and who gets to be believed

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 realize. 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"--wherein a lower-class butcher from Australia claimed he was in fact the rightful heir of a sizable estate and title--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."

" A] brilliant new entry in Smith's catalog . . . The Fraud is not a change for Smith, but a demonstration of how expansive her talents are." --Los Angeles Times

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 841945673X
• ISBN13: 9788419456731
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Salamandra
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"