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The Pigeon Tunnel by John Le Carré, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From John Le Carré

Current price: $22.00
The Pigeon Tunnel by John Le Carré, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
The Pigeon Tunnel by John Le Carré, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

The Pigeon Tunnel by John Le Carré, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From John Le Carré

Current price: $22.00
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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 Carré has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carré 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 the opening bars of Beethoven's Fifth, visiting Rwanda's museums of the unburied dead in the aftermath of the genocide, celebrating New Year's Eve 1982 with Yasser Arafat and his high command, interviewing a German woman terrorist in her desert prison in the Negev, listening to the wisdoms of the great physicist, dissident, and Nobel prize winner Andrei Sakharov, meeting with two former heads of the KGB, or describing the female aid worker who inspired the main character in The Constant Gardener, le Carré 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 Carré 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. | The Pigeon Tunnel by John Le Carré, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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