Small Town In Germany

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  • 9780141196381
  • 03 november 2011
  • 336 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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West Germany, a simmering cauldron of radical protests, has produced a new danger to Britain: Karfeld, menacing leader of the opposition. At the same time Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files.



'Brilliant, unforgettable ... a masterpiece' New Statesman

West Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests. Amid the turmoil Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files. Alan Turner of the Foreign Office must travel to Bonn to recover them. As he gets closer to the truth of Harting's disappearance, he will discover that the face of Cold War Europe - and the attentions of the British Ministry itself - are far uglier that he could possibly have imagined.

Le Carré's searing Cold War novel creates a world where the lines between right and wrong, good and evil, are horribly blurred.

'Exciting, compulsively readable and brilliantly plotted' The New York Times

With an Introduction by Hari Kunzru

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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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