Kate Atkinson, "Transcription"

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Kate Atkinson, "Transcription" (2018)

 

뉴욕 타임즈 서평

 

In 1940, eighteen-year-old Juliet Armsrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of M15 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presume the events of those past years have been relegated to the past forever. -- 책 겉표지에서.

 

역시 Kate Atkinon은 실망시키지 않는다.

 

책에서 다만 몇 구절:

 

In wartime, thruth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. -- Winston churchill (서두에)

 

"Do not equate nationalism with patriotism," Perry warned Juliet. "Nationalism is the first step on the road to Fascism." (p. 86)

 

   "Perhaps we can get a drink one evening, after work, Fräulein Rosenfeld," Juliet said.

   "Oh, I would like that very much, Miss Armstrong." Fräulein Rosenfeld beamed at her. "Wonderful." How little it takes to make some people happy, Juliet thought. (p. 232)

 

Tell him that nothing mattered and that that was a freedom, not a burden. (p. 329)