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Absolute Friends - John Le Carre

 

Description: ISBN 0340923695 / Author: John Le Carre / Genre: Crime / Thriller

Newest Review: ... friend Sasha visits him in the castle and tells him to meet him at a clandestine place outside. The second chapter shows ... more

 ... that this isn’t the beginning of the story proper but only a frame, we’re taken to the Hindu Kush and learn about Mundy’s childhood in Pakistan where he grew up as the son of a British colonial officer. I was a bit puzzled by le Carré’s decision to use a frame story whose nature is to be taken up again in the end, so whatever is going to happen to Mundy in his life will end well, or at least not in a catastrophe, and finally lead him to Munich, Germany, where’s the thrill then? Mundy and his father move to England, “a ...more

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MALU
Crowned Review Absolute Friends - John Le Carre: German Ghosts (1236 words)
by MALU - written on 28.09.07 (Very useful, 203 readings)
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I’ve known the famous author of spy-thrillers John le Carré (né David John Moore) for many years, in the 1960s I saw the film The Spy Who Came in From the Cold made after the book with the same title, I read A Small Town in Germany in the 1970s and Russia House in the early 1990s; I found the film and the books thrilling, why didn‘t I read more of his 24 books? I‘ve realised that I‘m too simple-minded for the genre, I often have to read an ending more than once until I get the pivotal twist and that can be frustrating. When I read a review about Absolute Friends (2003), I thought I could give it a go, what intrigued me was that the story is set in Germany, for ...

Chouchin
Crowned Review Recommended? Absolutely (923 words)
by Chouchin - written on 22.08.07 (Very useful, 175 readings)
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“Absolutely,” says Ted Mundy, often, using that typically middle-class phrase of the mid 20th century. But only a part of his background – he was educated at an English public school – conforms to this stereotype. The rest of him has been formed by a wide variety of environments and influences which combine to make him a perfect spy. Readers of John Le Carré will recognise that last phrase, the title of one of his previous novels. When the Berlin Wall fell and the Cold War was declared over, many book reviewers lamented that this also spelled the end of the spy story. Not so. It is alive, well and thriving in the master’s hands; partly because Le Carré ...

 
 
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