Book · 2024 · Fiction
The Fraud
A Novel
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I commend it to our listeners to immediately go and buy the audio book as well as the regular book.
What they say about it
- Historical setting of the novel“a historical novel”2
The best things said about it
She does the regional dialects in that novel in her voice and it's kind of genius.
The Fraud by Zadie Smith is a historical novel it's set in Victorian London so the mid 1800s the era of Charles Dickens.
We're here to talk about her sixth novel The Fraud, it's on the surface a historical novel set in the 19th century mostly in London.
The Zadie Smith recording of her most recent novel The Fraud, and it's an audiobook I really love.
6 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
The Fraud by Zadie Smith is a rich historical novel set in Victorian London during the era of Charles Dickens, centering around the famous Tichborne claimant case and themes of complicity and imposture. On The Book Review, Sarah Lyle enthusiastically recommended that listeners immediately purchase both the print edition and the audiobook, while Gilbert Cruz urged audiences to check out a dedicated author interview episode. Cruz and Greg Coles also highlighted the title among the top fiction books of the year, with Coles praising its detailed nineteenth-century setting. On The Ezra Klein Show, host Ezra Klein discussed the novel with Zadie Smith, expressing surprise at how powerfully the historical narrative resonates with twenty-first-century politics and public deception. During the conversation, Smith compared the thematic structure of her work to a book by Daniel Kehlmann, noting how both narratives ultimately explore the nature of human complicity. Across these diverse media discussions, critics and interviewers praised the novel's stylistic ambition and its sharp sociological observations, establishing Zadie Smith's historical excursion as a major literary achievement of recent years.
Every mention
Gilbert Cruz in fiction we have eastbound by m deenal translated from the French by Jessica Moore the fraud by Zade Smit… 3
“in fiction we have eastbound by m deenal translated from the French by Jessica Moore the fraud by Zade Smith the beasting by Paul Murray Chain Gang Allstars by nanak Kwame AJ Brena and Northwoods by Daniel Mason”
“well let's go back to Zade Smith for one second because she does the regional dialects in that novel in her voice and it's kind of Genius”
“for those of you who don't listen to this show every week I urge you speaking about Zade Smith and her new novel The fraud to listen to last week's episode”
Sarah Lyall I commend it to our listeners to immediately go and buy the audio book as well as the regular book and finally 2
“we're here to talk about her sixth novel The fraud it's on the surface a historical novel set in the 19th century mostly in London”
“I commend it to our listeners to immediately go and buy the audio book as well as the regular book and finally”
Joumana Khatib so let's start today with the fraud by Zade Smith 1
“so let's start today with the fraud by Zade Smith”
Ezra Klein still I was surprised when I finally read the fraud the book she released last year 2
“still I was surprised when I finally read the fraud the book she released last year”
“tell me about the tichborne case which is at the heart of of your book The fraud”
Lauren Christensen when you just said that I was thinking about the Zade Smith recording of her most recent novel The fraud an… 1
“when you just said that I was thinking about the Zade Smith recording of her most recent novel The fraud and it's an audiobook I really love and I can get into that the plot”
Zadie Smith He said these books are the same and reading it I realized they are the same they're about complicity 1
“He said these books are the same and reading it I realized they are the same they're about complicity”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker1
“the fraud by zad Smith is a historical novel it's set in Victorian London so the mid 1800s the era of Charles Dickens”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“Sarah Lyle who was last year on the podcast speaking with Zade Smith about her novel The fraud is in conversation with Adrian Edwards head of the printed Heritage collections at the British library in London”