A Small Town in Germany A Novel

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  • Paperback
  • 9780143122609
  • 05 maart 2013
  • 334 pagina's
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John le Carré

John le Carré, geboren in 1931, studeerde aan de universiteiten van Bern en Oxford. Tijdens de Koude Oorlog werkte hij enige tijd bij de Britse Inlichtingendienst. Hij schreef meer dan vijftig jaar romans die onze tijd karakteriseren, van zijn buitengewone romans over de Koude Oorlog tot zijn indrukwekkende schildering van de ‘War on Terror’.

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From the New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies. Haven't you realized that only appearances matter? The British Embassy in Bonn is up in arms. Her Majesty's financially troubled government is seeking admission to Europe's Common Market just as anti-British factions are rising to power in Germany. Rioters are demanding reunification, and the last thing the Crown can afford is a scandal. Then Leo Harting-an embassy nobody-goes missing with a case full of confidential files. London sends Alan Turner to control the damage, but he soon realizes that neither side really wants Leo found-alive.Set against the threat of a German-Soviet alliance, John le Carre's A Small Town in Germany is a superb chronicle of Cold War paranoia and political compromise. With an introduction by the author.

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    Le Carré’s fifth book is situated in and around the British embassy in Bonn, the post-WW II capital of West Germany, during the second half of the 1960s. The political context of the book is rather contrived: The United Kingdom (UK) has lost its empire and is bankrupt. In West Germany anti-British feeling is running high with violent demonstrations. A populist politician urges people to turn their back on the three former occupying nations and chart a new course for the nation, block UK-entry into the Common Market (precursor to the EU: the UK succeeded only in 1973), and support a trade alliance with Moscow.
    While the Bonn embassy is preparing for the worst (mass demonstrations and a possible attack on its premises), a lowly diplomat, who is a temp and a former refugee with 20 years of service, fails to turn up for work. The embassy’s most secret file is gone too, along with sundry other items, ranging from cups and saucers to an entire trolley loaded with files. Has he defected, run off to Moscow?
    London sends one of its security hard men, Alan Turner, to sort out the mess. He confronts and offends everybody he speaks with in his search for truth, and he moves on and on, uncovering small and big secrets. Meanwhile, he is furious about his wife’s infidelity with an upper class type, who tend to man and staff foreign embassies.
    The book is memorable for several reasons: how large embassies went about their business operationally and socially during the Cold War; the memorable cast of diplomats and support staff; the significance of class in a British context, and the alleged shiftiness of German high-level contacts.
    Finally, this complicated book is an experiment of not sending George Smiley (he is not mentioned at all), but Alan Turner to do battle. Unfaithful wives is what they have in common, and passion for truth and justice in an environment full of hypocrisy, indifference and lethargy. Highly recommended.

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