The Fraud louis Exquisitely translated by Susan Bernofsky

Exquisitely translated by Susan Bernofsky

an 80-something widow with challenges of her own

This is a Hawai'i where unruly sexuality and generational memory overflow the postcard image of paradise and the boundaries of the real

But in 1968

records the stories of ordinary women and men who are rarely given the opportunity to speak

The Fraud louis Exquisitely translated by Susan BernofskyIt is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeperand cousin by marriageof a once famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Andrew Bogle, meanwhile, grew up enslaved on the Hope Plantation, Jamaica. He knows every lump of sugar comes at a human cost. That the rich deceive the poor. And that people are more easily manipulated than they realize. When Bogle finds himself in London, star witness