'The Fraud,' Zadie Smith's sixth novel, cleverly follows the famous 19th century trial of a fraudulent claimant who becomes a populist hero. Sound familiar?
“Room” novelist Emma Donoghue on the historical queer romance — and the personal schoolgirl love affair — that inspired her novel “Learned by Heart.”Touchet thinks he’s an imposter; yet she makes sure to see the spectacle. “Frequently, she heard the cry:She tried to remind herself that what she was witnessing was a sincere mass emotion — dispossession — being twisted and manipulated for ulterior purposes. Still, they frightened her.
Touchet gets Bogle and his adult son to trust her by telling them she’s a writer. She does start to write things down, at least. Yet the book breaks away from the case to tell the story of Bogle in Jamaica — a different form of storytelling entirely. Immediate and damning and heart-wrenching. Things improve for Bogle in England, but not nearly enough.
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