«Vavilonskaya bashnya» - eto tretiy roman «Kvarteta Frederiki», schitayushchegosya, pozhaluy, glavnym proizvedeniem kavalerstvennoy damy ordena Britanskoy imperii Antonii S'yuzen Bayett. Tetralogiya pisalas' v techenie chetverti veka, i syuzhet ee takzhe imeet chetvert'vekovoy ohvat, prichem pervye dva romana («Dama v sadu», «Zhivaya veshch'») vyshli eshche do udostoennogo Bukerovskoy premii mezhdunarodnogo bestsellera «Obladat'», a tretiy i chetvertyy - posle. Itak, Frederika Potter - byvshaya yorkshirskaya shkol'nica i kembridzhskaya vypusknica, a teper' zhena herefordshirskogo skvayra - sbegaet s maloletnim synom ot muzha-tirana iz ego imeniya Bren-Haus i okazyvaetsya v Londone 1960-h godov, kotoryy vot-vot transformiruetsya v psihodelicheskiy «svinguyushchiy London». Tam ee okruzhayut hudozhniki-buntari, pisateli i poety. Istoriya materi-odinochki, zarabatyvayushchey na zhizn' prepodavaniem v hudozhestvennom uchilishche i literaturnoy kritikoy, pereslaivaetsya glavami «romana v romane» pod nazvaniem «Balabonskaya bashnya» i protokolami dvuh sudebnyh processov - nad etoy knigoy, obvinennoy v oskorblenii obshchestvennoy morali, i po Frederikinomu isku o razvode. «Bayett voskreshaet legendarnoe desyatiletie v izobil'noy i bezuprechno dostovernoy polnote. Kogda-nibud' istoriki budut blagodarny ledi Antonii za takuyu shchedrost', nu a chitateli mogut blagodarit' uzhe seychas» (Boston Review). Vpervye na russkom!
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