The Secret Pilgrim: John le Carré - Brossura

Le Carré, John

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ISBN 10: 014119636X ISBN 13: 9780141196367

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2011

Riassunto

The last of John le Carré's espionage novels to feature his most enduring and well-loved character, George Smiley, and a gripping feat of narrative brilliance, The Secret Pilgrim is published in Penguin Modern Classics with an afterword by the author.

The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing-out class. There are no laundered reminiscences; Smiley speaks the truth - perhaps the last the students will ever hear. As they listen, Ned recalls his own painful triumphs and inglorious failures, in a career that took him from the Western Isles of Scotland to Hamburg and from Israel to Cambodia. He asks himself: Did it do any good? What did it do to me? And what will happen to us now? In this final Smiley novel, the great spy gives his own humane and unexpected answers.

If you enjoyed The Secret Pilgrim, you might like le Carré's The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.

'Consummate and enthralling'
Observer

Su questo libro

L'autore:

John le Carré was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For more than fifty years he has lived by his pen. He divides his time between London and Cornwall.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 014119636X
• ISBN 13: 9780141196367
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 416