Silverview
Häftad bok. Penguin Books Ltd. Förlagsny! English text!. 2021. 266 sidor.
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Förlagsny! English text!
The great spy novelist’s final full-length book is a precision-tooled cat and mouse chase from a bookshop in East Anglia to the old eastern bloc
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S 2022 SUMMER PICKS 'Le Carré at his finest' Mick Herron, Guardian Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But after only a couple of months into his new career, Edward, a Polish émigré, shows up at his door with a very keen interest in Julian's new enterprise and a lot of knowledge about his family history. And when a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea . . . Silverview is the mesmerising story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In this last complete masterwork from the greatest chronicler of our age, John le Carré asks what you owe to your country when you no longer recognise it. 'The finest, wisest storyteller' Richard Osman 'A towering writer' Margaret Atwood 'A literary giant' Stephen King
Julian Lawndsley har lämnat den hektiska affärsvärlden i London för ett lugnare liv i en sömnig engelsk kuststad, där han öppnat en bokhandel. Inom kort får han kontakt med Edward, en verserad herre som bor i Silverview, det mäktiga huset i utkanten av staden. Men vad finns i Edwards förflutna och varför är han så intresserad av Julian? Spåren leder till en av underrättelsetjänstens mörkare hemligheter, och till en läcka som kan få ödesdigra konsekvenser.
Silverview är John le Carrés sista roman. Det är en berättelse om kampen mellan professionell plikt och individuell moral, och om vad vi är skyldiga dem vi älskar.
John le Carré, pseudonym för David John Moore Cornwell, född 19 oktober 1931 i Poole, Dorset, död 12 december 2020 i Truro, Cornwall, var en brittisk författare av i huvudsak spionromaner om den brittiska underrättelsetjänsten under det kalla kriget.
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780241994535
- Titel
- Silverview
- Författare
- le Carré, John
- Förlag
- Penguin
- Utgivningsår
- 2022
- Omfång
- 288 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Mått
- 130 x 200 mm Ryggbredd 21 mm
- Vikt
- 246 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian's family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea . . . Silverview is the mesmerising story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In this last complete masterwork from the greatest chronicler of our age, John le Carré asks what you owe to your country when you no longer recognise it.
