The Mission Song
Pocketbok. Hodder. 2007. 339 s. Pocket. 18x11cm. 190 gram.
Mycket gott skick. Engelsk text. Fin pärm men med vikmärken på ryggen.. Fin inlaga. Ägarsign.
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Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780340922002
- Titel
- The mission song
- Författare
- John Le Carré
- Förlag
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Utgivningsår
- 2007
- Omfång
- 345 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Mått
- 110 x 177 mm Ryggbredd 22 mm
- Vikt
- 188 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- Bruno Salvador, known to friends and enemies alike as Salvo, is the ever-innocent, twenty-nine-year-old orphaned love-child of a Catholic Irish missionary and a Congolese headman's daughter. Educated first at mission school in the East Congolese province of Kivu, and later at a discreet sanctuary for the secret sons of Rome, Salvo is inspired by his mentor Brother Michael to train as a professional interpreter in the minority African languages of which, almost from birth, he has been an obsessive collector. Soon a rising star in his profession, he is courted by City corporations, hospitals, law courts, the Immigration services and - inevitably - the mushrooming overworld of British Intelligence. He is also courted - and won - by the all-white, Surrey-born Penelope, star reporter on one of our great national newspapers, whom with typical impulsiveness he promptly marries. Yet even as the story opens, a contrary and irresistible love is dawning in him. Despatched to a no-name island in the North Sea to attend a top-secret meeting between Western financiers and East Congolese warlords, Salvo is obliged to interpret matters never intended for his re-awoken African conscience.
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