My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.

  • -- Vikas Swarup 维卡斯·斯瓦卢普

我的第一部小说对我自己是个挑战。没有人知道我在做这件事。

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In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process.

另一方面,在小说中,你不仅要描述房间,还要描述衣服、人物和他们在想什么。这是一个更深入的过程。

Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.

因此,在两代人的时间内,工会对从事其行业的妇女的态度发生了一场彻底的革命。

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

我可以以一种在当代小说中难以成功塑造的方式塑造任何角色。

When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.

我很小的时候,她在五金店工作,所以我从小就知道五金店。