Book of the Year 2023 tvoria New York Times, New Yorker, Guardian, Economist, Observer, The Spectator, Financial Times, Vogue, The Times, The Oldie, aj Paper, The Standard, Washington Post, Independent, Daily ExpressSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS' PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024ONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023'Zapisovateľ na vrchole svojich síl' TelegraphTruth and fiction. Jamaica a Britain. Kto sa dostane do tej svojej skladby?Ve svojich prvých historických noviel, Zadie Smith prepravuje reader do Victorian Anglicka prefixovaný na skutočný životný znak Tichborne Claimant, v ktorom koktejský butcher, nedávno odovzdané z Austrálie, lay claim to Tichborne baronetcy, s jeho former slave Andrew Bogle as star witness. Sledovanie procesov, as jej vlastným story do tell, je Eliza Touchet - kúsok, housekeeper a perhaps more - to failing novelista William Harrison Ainsworth. and poor, zadarmo a sláviť, a komické a tragické.'It difficult to divoká idea how extraordinary this book is. One of the great historical novels, certainly. Alebo máš historický novín ever kombinovaný such brilliantne researched a detailné histórie s such intensely imagined fiction?' Michael Frayn'As bude it is pleasure to be in Zadie Smith's mind . . . Dickens môže byť dead, ale Smith, thankfully, je alive' New York Times'Zadie Smith's Victorian-set masterpiece holds a mirror up to Britain . . . Fraud is the genuine article' Independent'Smith's dazzling historické novely kombinujú väčšinu písania a strenuous výstavby v tale literary Londýna a horrors of slavery' Guardian