Comforters B 英文原版

　　Brilliantly original and fascinating Evelyn Waugh A master of
malice and mayhem Michiko Katutani, NEW YORK TIMES

　　In Muriel Spark’s fantastic first novel, the only things that
aren’t ambiguous are her matchless originality and glittering wit.
Caroline Rose is plagued by the tapping of typewriter keys and the
strange, detached narration of her every thought and action. She
has an unusual problem – she realises she is in a novel. Her fellow
characters are also possibly deluded: Laurence, her former lover,
finds diamonds in a loaf of bread – could his elderly grandmother
really be a smuggler? And Baron Stock, her bookseller friend,
believes he is on the trail of England’s leading Satanist.

　　Born in Edinburgh, Muriel Spark was internationally famous and
received the Italia Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the
FNAC Prix Etranger and the Saltire Prize, among many others. She
was elected an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and
Letters in 1978 and to L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France in
1988. She died in April 2006.