Promotional Information

Zadie Smith's astonishingly accomplished first novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time.

About the Author

Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia; three collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free and Intimations; a collection of short stories, Grand Union; and the play, The Wife of Willesden, adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London, where she still lives. The Fraud is her first historical novel.

Reviews

Funny, clever ... and a rollicking good read
*Independent*

Do believe the hype, buy into it, curl up with it, savour every sentence, then turn around and re-read
*The Times*

An impressive début, not only for its vitality and verve, but mainly for the sheer audacity of its scope and vision ... an epic tale ... swooping, funny ... it has ambition, wit and is unafraid
*Express*

Announces the debut of a preternaturally gifted new writer ... street-smart and learned, sassy and philosophical all at the same time
*The New York Times*

Relentlessly funny ... idiosyncratic, and deeply felt
*Guardian*

An astonishingly assured début, funny and serious ... I was delighted
*Salman Rushdie*

She is . . . a George Eliot of multi-culturalism
*Daily Telegraph*

[Zadie Smith] is one of the prominent voices of her generation
*Sunday Times*

Britain's finest young author
*The List*

[Zadie Smith] packs more intelligence, humour and sheer energy into any given scene than anyone else of her generation
*Sunday Telegraph*

[White Teeth] established a model for how to make sense-and art-out of the complexity, diversity and pluck that have defined the beginning of this century
*Time*

Funny, clever ... and a rollicking good read
*Independent*

Do believe the hype, buy into it, curl up with it, savour every sentence, then turn around and re-read
*The Times*

An impressive début, not only for its vitality and verve, but mainly for the sheer audacity of its scope and vision ... an epic tale ... swooping, funny ... it has ambition, wit and is unafraid
*Express*

Announces the debut of a preternaturally gifted new writer ... street-smart and learned, sassy and philosophical all at the same time
*The New York Times*

An astonishingly assured début, funny and serious ... I was delighted
*Salman Rushdie*

Relentlessly funny ... idiosyncratic, and deeply felt
*Guardian*