Zadie Smith, Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures event
7:30 p.m. Sept. 18, virtual, $18
Prize-winning author Zadie Smith’s “The Fraud” is set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England. The novel exposes issues of justice, slavery, abolitionism and class, while highlighting the disparities of who deserves to tell their story — and who deserves to be believed. Based on historical events, “The Fraud” is a novel about truth and fiction, Jamaica and Britain, fraudulence and authenticity, and the mystery of “other people.” Smith is the author of the novels “White Teeth,” “The Autograph Man,” “On Beauty,” “NW” and “Swing Time.” She is the winner of the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Orange Prize for Fiction, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, among others. Register here.
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