Transcription
Kurzinformation
inkl. MwSt. Versandinformationen
Artikel zZt. nicht lieferbar
Artikel zZt. nicht lieferbar
Beschreibung
'An unapologetic novel of ideas which is also wise, funny and paced like a thriller' ObserverThe magnificent new novel by bestselling award-winning Kate AtkinsonIn 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past for ever.Ten years later, now a producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. A different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat. A bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to realize that there is no action without consequence.Transcription is a work of rare depth and texture, a bravura modern novel of extraordinary power, wit and empathy. It is a triumphant work of fiction from one of this country's most exceptional writers. von Atkinson, Kate
Produktdetails
So garantieren wir Dir zu jeder Zeit Premiumqualität.
Über den Autor
Kate Atkinson is one of the world's foremost novelists. She won the Costa Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Her three critically lauded and prizewinning novels set around World War II are Life After Life, A God in Ruins (both winners of the Costa Novel Award), and Transcription. She was appointed MBE for services to literature in 2011.Her bestselling literary crime novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie, Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News? and Started Early, Took My Dog became a BBC television series starring Jason Isaacs. Jackson Brodie returns in her new novel Big Sky.
- Hardcover -
- Erschienen 2005
- Wiley VCH Verlag GmbH
- Hardcover
- 244 Seiten
- Erschienen 2006
- Springer
- Taschenbuch
- 216 Seiten
- Erschienen 2001
- Routledge
- Hardcover
- 420 Seiten
- Erschienen 2010
- Academic Press
- paperback
- 538 Seiten
- Erschienen 2018
- EdiSES