The pigeon tunnel

Name: The pigeon tunnel
Brand: Totvsrj-record-dc
SKU: 9788501111166
Price: 69.90 BRL
Availability: InStock

Autor: John Le Carre

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Sinopse

The autobiography of one of the greatest spy novelists of all time.

From his years working for the British Secret Service to a career as an author that took him from the devastation of war in Cambodia to Beirut before Israel invaded in 1982 and to Russia before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, John le Carré's writing has always started from the heart of modern times.

In his first memoir, Le Carré is as funny as he is incisive—perceiving in the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity he imbues in his novels. Whether describing the parrot in a Beirut hotel that perfectly imitated the sound of a machine gun, the visit to the museums of the unburied dead in Rwanda after the genocide, the New Year's celebration with Yasser Arafat, the interview with a German terrorist in a Negev desert prison, observing Alec Guinness preparing for the role of George Smiley, or the director of a humanitarian organization who inspired the main character in The Constant Gardener , Le Carré infuses each event with vivacity and humor, sometimes making us laugh, sometimes inviting us to rethink events and people we thought we understood.

And best of all, John le Carré gives us a glimpse into a writer's journey spanning more than six decades and his search for the human aspect that gave so much life and emotion to his fictional characters.