{"product_id":"la-impostura-the-fraud","title":"La impostura \/ The Fraud","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eZadie Smith regresa con fuerza a la ficci\u0026amp;oacute;n con una gran novela sobre la Inglaterra victoriana.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;laquo;Dickens puede estar muerto, pero Zadie Smith est\u0026amp;aacute; absolutamente viva.\u0026amp;raquo; \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;laquo;Una autora en la cima de su talento.\u0026amp;raquo; \u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Recibida con elogios entusiastas por la cr\u0026amp;iacute;tica del Reino Unido y Estados Unidos, que la ha considerado de forma un\u0026amp;aacute;nime uno de los mejores libros del a\u0026amp;ntilde;os, \u003ci\u003eLa impostura\u003c\/i\u003e supone el regreso a la novela de Zadie Smith, siete a\u0026amp;ntilde;os despu\u0026amp;eacute;s de \u003ci\u003eTiempos de swing \u003c\/i\u003ey un cuarto de siglo despu\u0026amp;eacute;s de su irrupci\u0026amp;oacute;n en el panorama literario con \u003ci\u003eDientes blancos\u003c\/i\u003e. Llena de vida, ideas, humor, sentimientos y algo semejante a una verdad moral, \u003ci\u003eLa impostura\u003c\/i\u003e narra con extraordinaria habilidad las controversias sociales del Londres victoriano a trav\u0026amp;eacute;s de un pu\u0026amp;ntilde;ado de personajes memorables.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Corre el a\u0026amp;ntilde;o 1873. La escocesa Eliza Touchet es la prima y ama de llaves de William Ainsworth, un novelista anta\u0026amp;ntilde;o famoso pero ahora en decadencia, con quien vive desde hace treinta a\u0026amp;ntilde;os. Mujer de m\u0026amp;uacute;ltiples intereses \u0026amp;mdash;la literatura, la justicia, el abolicionismo, las clases sociales y las esposas de su primo\u0026amp;mdash;, Eliza se entusiasma con un intrigante juicio que est\u0026amp;aacute; levantando encendidas pasiones en Londres: sir Roger Tichborne, heredero de un enorme imperio y desaparecido en el mar a\u0026amp;ntilde;os antes, ha reaparecido de repente y reclama lo que le corresponde. En particular, a Eliza le llama la atenci\u0026amp;oacute;n Andrew Bogle, testigo clave en el juicio, y quiere saberlo todo sobre \u0026amp;eacute;l. Criado como esclavo en las plantaciones de az\u0026amp;uacute;car de Jamaica y sirviente de la familia Tichborne durante d\u0026amp;eacute;cadas, Bogle es el hombre que puede confirmar o desmentir las incre\u0026amp;iacute;bles pretensiones del aspirante a la fortuna de los Tichborne.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Vertiginosa exploraci\u0026amp;oacute;n de los enga\u0026amp;ntilde;os y autoenga\u0026amp;ntilde;os de la condici\u0026amp;oacute;n humana, \u003ci\u003eLa impostura\u003c\/i\u003e nos adentra en un fascinante mundo victoriano en el que realidad y ficci\u0026amp;oacute;n se mezclan con vigor. Una novela con resonancias muy contempor\u0026amp;aacute;neas en la que una hero\u0026amp;iacute;na inolvidable se atreve a enfrentarse al brutal pasado colonial de Inglaterra.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eENGLISH DESCRIPTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u0026amp;bull; One of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e10 Best Books of the Year \u0026amp;bull; One of NPR's Best Books of the Year \u0026amp;bull; Named a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003eand BookPage \u0026amp;bull; One of Oprah Daily's Best Novels of 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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\u0026amp;mdash;and who gets to be believed\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper\u0026amp;mdash;and cousin by marriage\u0026amp;mdash;of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The \u0026amp;ldquo;Tichborne Trial\u0026amp;rdquo;\u0026amp;mdash;wherein a lower-class butcher from Australia claimed he was in fact the rightful heir of a sizable estate and title\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;mdash;\u003c\/b\u003ecaptivates 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. . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Based on real historical events, \u003ci\u003eThe Fraud \u003c\/i\u003eis a dazzling novel about truth and fiction, Jamaica and Britain, fraudulence and authenticity and the mystery of \u0026amp;ldquo;other people.\u0026amp;rdquo;\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;ldquo;[A] brilliant new entry in Smith\u0026amp;rsquo;s catalog . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Fraud\u003c\/i\u003e is not a change for Smith, but a demonstration of how expansive her talents are.\u0026amp;rdquo; \u0026amp;mdash;\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRH Grupo Editorial","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback","offer_id":49738190029027,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9788419456731","price":164.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/b9124676c413-9788419456731.jpg?v=1789539544","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/products\/la-impostura-the-fraud","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}