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Zadie Smith regresa con fuerza a la ficción con una gran novela sobre la Inglaterra victoriana.
«Dickens puede estar muerto, pero Zadie Smith está absolutamente viva.»
The New York Times
«Una autora en la cima de su talento.»
The Telegraph
Recibida con elogios entusiastas por la crítica del Reino Unido y Estados Unidos, que la ha considerado de forma unánime uno de los mejores libros del años, La impostura supone el regreso a la novela de Zadie Smith, siete años después de Tiempos de swing y un cuarto de siglo después de su irrupción 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 través de un puñado de personajes memorables.
Corre el año 1873. La escocesa Eliza Touchet es la prima y ama de llaves de William Ainsworth, un novelista antaño famoso pero ahora en decadencia, con quien vive desde hace treinta años. Mujer de múltiples intereses —la literatura, la justicia, el abolicionismo, las clases sociales y las esposas de su primo—, Eliza se entusiasma con un intrigante juicio que está levantando encendidas pasiones en Londres: sir Roger Tichborne, heredero de un enorme imperio y desaparecido en el mar años antes, ha reaparecido de repente y reclama lo que le corresponde. En particular, a Eliza le llama la atención Andrew Bogle, testigo clave en el juicio, y quiere saberlo todo sobre él. Criado como esclavo en las plantaciones de azúcar de Jamaica y sirviente de la familia Tichborne durante décadas, Bogle es el hombre que puede confirmar o desmentir las increíbles pretensiones del aspirante a la fortuna de los Tichborne.
Vertiginosa exploración de los engaños y autoengaños de la condición humana, La impostura nos adentra en un fascinante mundo victoriano en el que realidad y ficción se mezclan con vigor. Una novela con resonancias muy contemporáneas en la que una heroína inolvidable se atreve a enfrentarse al brutal pasado colonial de Inglaterra.
La crítica ha dicho:
«Dickens puede estar muerto, pero Zadie Smith está absolutamente viva».
The New York Times
«Una autora en la cima de su talento».
The Telegraph
«Brillante. Una delicia dickensiana».
Los Angeles Times
«Una mirada cautivadora a lo fraudulento y lo auténtico».
Chicago Review of Books
«La nueva novela de Zadie Smith, divertida y casi impecable, examina la identidad, la noción de verdad y la Inglaterra y la Jamaica del siglo XIX en plena ebullición».
The Observer
«Una narración que ilumina lo que es vivir y amar en el siglo XXI».
Financial Times
«Con la excelencia que le caracteriza, Smith consigue que las muchas partes del relato cohesionen».
The New Yorker
«Original y virtuosa».
Vogue
«Una novela que gira en torno a un caso legal célebre y divisivo captura la variedad de voces del Londres del siglo XIX».
The Wall Street Journal
«La vida cultural y literaria de la Inglaterra victoriana surge de forma vibrante en cada página de esta extraordinaria ficción».
Library Journal
«Una escritura excepcional y pasajes resplandecientes que van desde lo humorístico hasta lo profundamente filosófico».
NPR
Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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