The Fraud, Zadie Smith's sixth novel, is partly about an enslaved man on a Jamaican sugar plantation, and it's a comedy: those two things at once...Smith does here, mixing narrative delight with a vein of rapid, skimming satire as she sketches scenes of life in 19th-century England and the Caribbean.
The novel is a complicated mosaic of episodes from interleaved plots. Much of it follows a bizarre court case, a tragicomedy of obscene length, that gripped the British public in the 1870s...The novel's hybridity becomes part of its fascination.
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