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The Pigeon Tunnel - Stories from My Life (Paperback)
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"Recounted with the storytelling elan of a master raconteur - by
turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy." -Michiko
Kakutani, The New York Times The New York Times bestselling memoir
from John le Carre, the legendary author of A Legacy of Spies. 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, le Carre has always written from
the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carre 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; watching
Alec Guinness prepare for his role as George Smiley in the
legendary BBC TV adaptations of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and
Smiley's People; or describing the female aid worker who inspired
the main character in The Constant Gardener, le Carre endows each
happening with vividness and humor, now making us laugh out loud,
now inviting us to think anew about events and people we believed
we understood. Best of all, le Carre 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.
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