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V vysshuyu lygu sovremennoy lyteratury Keyt Atkynson popala s pervoy zhe popytky: ee debyutnyy roman «Muzey moykh tayn» poluchyl prestyzhnuyu Uytbredovskuyu premyyu, oboydya «Proshchalnyy vzdokh mavra» Salmana Rushdy, a tsykl romanov o chastnom detektyve Dzheksone Broudy, uspevshyy polyubytsya y rossyyskomu chytatelyu («Prestuplenyya proshlogo», «Povorot k luchshemu», «Zhdat ly dobrykh vestey?», «Chut svet, s sobakoyu vdvoem», «Bolshoe nebo»), Styven Kyng okrestyl «glavnym detektyvnym proektom desyatyletyya». «„Khramy veselya“ — brytanskyy otvet „Velykomu Getsby“, — pysaly krytyky, — proshytyy lyteraturnymy allyuzyyamy na kuchu shedevrov, ot Shekspyra do T. S. Elyota». Ytak, na dvore 1926 god. Strana eshche tolkom ne opravylas ot myasorubky Velykoy voyny, a v Londone pravyt bal «epokha dzhaza». V nochnykh klubakh Sokho pery Anglyy trutsya plechamy s gangsteramy, a vysokopostavlennye ynostrannye gosty tantsuyut so starletkamy, po shyllyngu za tanets. Samymy modnymy klubamy — «Ametyst», «Feya», «Lysya nora», «Sfynks» y «Khrustalnaya chasha» — pravyt Nelly Koker s ee neputevymy detmy. No gde uspekh, tam y vragy; otrazhat ugrozy vneshnye y vnutrennye myssys Koker ne pryvykat, odnako seychas taynstvennyy protyvnyk natselylsya na ee ymperyyu tselykom — y vdobavok vse blyzhe neuyutnyy fokus polytseyskogo vnymanyya: ymenno na ee kluby vyvodyt rassledovanye tseloy seryy taynstvennykh yscheznovenyy molodykh devushek. Sovpadenye ly?. . «„Khramy veselya“ — ydealnyy roman dlya nashykh nespokoynykh vremen, kogda vostrebovano uteshenye etoy osobennoy chysto anglyyskoy y nostalgycheskoy raznovydnosty» (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!