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Pigeon Tunnel
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«Elusive and frank and witty by turns, the spy master gives away just as much of himself as he wants to in The Pigeon Tunnel, tracing the story of his life through his walk-on parts in the history and mythology of the cold war, and the shape-shifting discipline of his imagination»
Tim Adams, Guardian Biographies of the Year
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I'm sitting now. Les mer
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THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I'm sitting now.' From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion, to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, John le Carre has always written from the heart of modern times.
In this, his first memoir, le Carre is as funny as he is incisive - reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels. Whether he's writing about the parrot at a Beirut hotel that could perfectly mimic machine gun fire, or visiting Rwanda's museums of the unburied dead in the aftermath of the genocide, or celebrating New Year's Eve with Yasser Arafat, or interviewing a German terrorist in her desert prison in the Negev, or watching Alec Guinness preparing for his role as George Smiley, or describing the female aid worker who inspired the main character in his The Constant Gardener, le Carre endows each happening with vividness and humour, now making us laugh out loud, now inviting us to think anew about events and people we believed we understood. Best of all, le Carre gives us a glimpse of a writer's journey over more than six decades, and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life and heart to his fictional characters.
In this, his first memoir, le Carre is as funny as he is incisive - reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels. Whether he's writing about the parrot at a Beirut hotel that could perfectly mimic machine gun fire, or visiting Rwanda's museums of the unburied dead in the aftermath of the genocide, or celebrating New Year's Eve with Yasser Arafat, or interviewing a German terrorist in her desert prison in the Negev, or watching Alec Guinness preparing for his role as George Smiley, or describing the female aid worker who inspired the main character in his The Constant Gardener, le Carre endows each happening with vividness and humour, now making us laugh out loud, now inviting us to think anew about events and people we believed we understood. Best of all, le Carre gives us a glimpse of a writer's journey over more than six decades, and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life and heart to his fictional characters.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 352
- ISBN
- 9780241976890
- Utgivelsesår
- 2017
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
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«Elusive and frank and witty by turns, the spy master gives away just as much of himself as he wants to in The Pigeon Tunnel, tracing the story of his life through his walk-on parts in the history and mythology of the cold war, and the shape-shifting discipline of his imagination»
Tim Adams, Guardian Biographies of the Year
«I savoured the gravelly, quietly insistent voice of a master storyteller examining his own life»
Michela Wrong, The Spectator
«the entertaining recollections of a raconteur»
Neil McCormick, Telegraph
«Fascinating, important, pithy. Anyone interested in le Carré and his significant contribution to the literature of the 20th and 21st centuries will want to read these engaging meanderings through his life and career.He has plenty to say about Kim Philby, the movie business, fellow spooks and Russian defectors, encounters with the great and good, and his intrepid travels to research his novels»
William Boyd, Guardian
«Vintage le Carré ... [he] remains a magician of plot and counter-plot, a master storyteller»
Observer
«John le Carré is as recognizable a writer as Dickens or Austen»
Financial Times
«A smashing read »
Richard Davenport-Hines, Wall Street Journal
«Exceptionally well-turned and enjoyable»
David Sexton, Evening Standard
«He has written an uproarious, darkly poignant and precious book»
James Naughtie, New Statesman
«A beautiful book. The great glory of it is it comes close to unlocking the central mystery of le Carré»
Tony Parsons
«As enthralling as his fiction»
Woman and Home
«Le Carré is such a good writer . . . Though urbane and detached, there is rage simmering not far below the surface of both le Carré and his new book. But then, nothing, absolutely nothing, is what it seems»
Daily Mail
«A deeply personal and touching account of le Carré's life ... it has undeniable power»
Prospect
«le Carré's The Pigeon Tunnel is exquisite»
Hugh Laurie
«When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carré ... they were a journey into the wider world ... These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind»
Aung San Suu Kyi
«Frank and fascinating»
Daily Express
«Grippingly written, it is revealing in ways the author never intended it to be»
Sunday Telegraph
«Cagey, clever, revealing»
Daily Telegraph
«le Carré is a master of the art... fascinatingly readable»
The Times
«The Pigeon Tunnel is a delight... a collection of highly polishes oddments from a life, assembled to entertain and inform...fabulously funny»
Radio Times
«For me The Pigeon Tunnel just confirms the enigma... extremely humorous... at no point do I feel that I knew one tiny bit more than he wants me to know»
Susanne Bier, director of The Night Manager
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