- New York Times bestseller, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, sagas, Australia, fiction
Truth and justice tested by a 19th-century author and his cousin, and a fraudulent pretender and his manumitted witness.
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Classical in form, grave, prestige and spare.
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- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Zadie Smith
- First published
- 2023
- Pages
- 521
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group, Diversified Publishing, Penguin Books, Limited
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780593792643
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First sentence
“A filthy boy stood on the doorstep.”
About Zadie Smith · 1975
English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer
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