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V vysshui͡u ligu sovremennoĭ literatury Keĭt Atkinson popala s pervoĭ zhe popytki: ee debi͡utnyĭ roman "Muzeĭ moikh taĭn" poluchil prestizhnui͡u Uitbredovskui͡u premii͡u, oboĭdi͡a "Proshchalʹnyĭ vzdokh mavra" Salmana Rushdi, a t͡sikl romanov o chastnom detektive Dzheksone Broudi, uspevshiĭ poli͡ubitʹsi͡a i rossiĭskomu chitateli͡u ("Prestuplenii͡a proshlogo", "Povorot k luchshemu", "Zhdatʹ li dobrykh vesteĭ?", "Chutʹ svet, s sobakoi͡u vdvoem", "Bolʹshoe nebo"), Stiven King okrestil "glavnym detektivnym proektom desi͡atiletii͡a". "„Khramy veselʹi͡a" - britanskiĭ otvet „Velikomu Gėtsbi", - pisali kritiki, - proshityĭ literaturnymi alli͡uzii͡ami na kuchu shedevrov, ot Shekspira do T. S. Ėliota". Itak, na dvore 1926 god. Strana eshche tolkom ne opravilasʹ ot mi͡asorubki Velikoĭ voĭny, a v Londone pravit bal "ėpokha dzhaza". V nochnykh klubakh Sokho pėry Anglii trutsi͡a plechami s gangsterami, a vysokopostavlennye inostrannye gosti tant͡sui͡ut so starletkami, po shillingu za tanet͡s. Samymi modnymi klubami - "Ametist", "Fei͡a", "Lisʹi͡a nora", "Sfinks" i "Khrustalʹnai͡a chasha" - pravit Nelli Koker s ee neputevymi detʹmi. No gde uspekh, tam i vragi; otrazhatʹ ugrozy vneshnie i vnutrennie missis Koker ne privykatʹ, odnako seĭchas tainstvennyĭ protivnik nat͡selilsi͡a na ee imperii͡u t͡selikom - i vdobavok vse blizhe neui͡utnyĭ fokus polit͡seĭskogo vnimanii͡a: imenno na ee kluby vyvodit rassledovanie t͡seloĭ serii tainstvennykh ischeznoveniĭ molodykh devushek. Sovpadenie li?. . "„Khramy veselʹi͡a" - idealʹnyĭ roman dli͡a nashikh nespokoĭnykh vremen, kogda vostrebovano uteshenie ėtoĭ osobennoĭ chisto angliĭskoĭ i nostalʹgicheskoĭ raznovidnosti" (The Times). Vpervye na russkom!

Kate Atkinson got into the top league of modern literature on her very first attempt: her debut novel "The Museum of My Secrets" won the prestigious Whitbread Prize, beating Salman Rushdie's "Farewell Sigh of the Moor", and a series of novels about private investigator Jackson Brody, which managed to fall in love with the Russian reader ("Crimes of the Past", "A Turn for the Better", "Should we wait for good news?", "Barely light, with a dog together", "Big Sky"), Stephen King dubbed "the main detective project of the decade." "Temples of Fun is the British answer to The Great Gatsby," critics wrote, "stitched with literary allusions to a bunch of masterpieces, from Shakespeare to T. S. Eliot." So, the year is 1926. The country has not really recovered from the meat grinder of the Great War, and the jazz Age is ruling the ball in London. In the nightclubs of Soho, the peers of England rub shoulders with gangsters, and high-ranking foreign guests dance with starlets, for a shilling per dance. The most fashionable clubs — "Amethyst", "Fairy", "Fox Hole", "Sphinx" and "Crystal Bowl" — are ruled by Nelly Cocker and her wayward children. But where there is success, there are enemies; Mrs. Coker is no stranger to fending off external and internal threats, but now a mysterious enemy is targeting her entire empire — and in addition, the uncomfortable focus of police attention is getting closer: it is her clubs that are being investigated by a series of mysterious disappearances of young girls. Is it a coincidence?. . "Temples of Fun is the perfect novel for our turbulent times, when the solace of this special purely English and nostalgic variety is in demand" (The Times). For the first time in Russian!