凯特·阿特金森(Kate Atkinson),出生于美国纽约,目前居住在英国爱丁堡。1974年取得英国文学硕士学位后,出版的第一本小说Behind the Scenes at the Museum,即荣获惠布瑞特首作小说奖。而她的短篇小说更是获奖无数,包含布里德波特短篇小说奖、伊恩·圣詹姆斯奖 、E.M.福斯特奖,还入围英国书籍奖年度作家、法国里拉年度图书奖、苏格兰圣安德鲁十字学会文学奖等。
Transcription is a bravura novel of extraordinary power and substance. Juliet Armstrong is recruited as a young woman by an obscure wartime department of the Secret Service. In the aftermath of war she joins the BBC, where her life begins to unravel, and she finally has to come to terms with the consequences of idealism.
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"No other contemporary novelist has such supreme mastery of that sweet spot between high and low, literary and compulsively readable as Kate Atkinson. I look forward to a new Atkinson book like I look forward to Christmas…what lends the novel enchantment is that patented Atkinson double whammy: gravity and levity. Tragedy and comedy as so skilfully entwined that you find yourself snorting with mirth…brimming with dark wit that reminds you how deeply satisfying good fiction can be." (Allison Pearson Sunday Telegraph)
"Transcription stands alongside its immediate predecessors as a fine example of Kate Atkinson's mature work, an unapologetic novel of ideas which is also wise, funny and paced like a thriller." (Stephanie Merritt Observer)
"Kate Atkinson is a wonderful writer. I want to write like her when I grow up. Transcription shows she's at the peak of her powers. Full of beautiful, delicate, sharp sentences and characterisations. A spy novel that dismantles the whole genre. A class act, as ever." (Matt Haig)
"Superb...Transcription is the sort of book that reminds you how profound and satisfying and moving and exhilarating good fiction can be. It’s the best novel I’ve read all year. I can’t praise it enough." (Irish Times)
"Never loses its sense of absurdity of human beings even in their most tragic or noble moments...How vehemently most novelists will wish to produce a masterpiece as good." (Jake Kerridge Daily Telegraph)
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