Mr Lanchester is not the first post-crisis novelist to consider Londoners and their money.

兰彻斯特并不是第一位思考伦敦人及其金钱的后危机小说家。

This might be forgiven if Mr Lanchester's characters could carry the weight of his book.

这可以得到原谅，只要兰彻斯特的角色都可以在他的书中占有份量。

Two recent examples, John Lanchester's “Capital” and Sebastian Faulks's “A Week in December”, fail to define their age as Dickens or Conan Doyle did.

以最近的两本小说为例，约翰·兰彻斯特的《首都》和塞巴斯蒂安·福克斯的《十二月的一周》未能像狄更斯或柯南道尔的作品那样，成为一个时代的印记。