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Alan Furst

Autor/a de Night Soldiers

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Furst received a B.A. from Oberlin College in 1962 and an M.A. from Penn State in 1967. Before becoming a full-time novelist, Furst worked in advertising and wrote magazine articles, most notably for Esquire, and as a columnist for the International Herald Tribune His early novels (1976-1983) mostra'n més achieved limited success. However, the 1988 publication of Night Soldiers inspired by a 1984 trip to Eastern Europe on assignment for Esquire revitalized his career. It was the first of his highly original novels about espionage in Europe before and during the Second World War. Born in New York on February 20, 1941, he lived for long periods in France, especially Paris where he was awarded a Fulbright teaching fellowship. In 2011, the Tulsa Library Trust in Tulsa, Oklahoma selected Furst to receive its Helmerich Award, a literary prize given annually to honor a distinguished author's body of work He also made The New York Times Best Seller List in 2012 with his title The Mission to Paris and Midnight in Europe in 2014. Furst again made the New York Times Bestseller in 2016 with his novel a Hero of France. (Publisher Provided) Alan Furst is an American author of spy novels. He was born in New York City on February 20, 1941, and was raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Furst received a B.A. from Oberlin College in 1962 and an M.A. from Penn State in 1967. His novels are set just prior to and during the Second World War. Titles include: Night Soldiers, Kingdom of Shadows (which won the 2001 Hammett Prize), Blood of Victory, Spies of the Balkans and Mission to Paris. In 2011, the Tulsa Library Trust in Tulsa, Oklahoma, selected Furst to receive its Helmerich Award, a literary prize given annually to honor a distinguished author's body of work. Furst made The New York Times Best Seller List in 2012 with his title The Mission to Paris and Midnight in Europe in 2014. Furst again made the New York Times Bestseller in 2016 with his novel A Hero of France. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys

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Obres de Alan Furst

Night Soldiers (1988) 1,560 exemplars
The Foreign Correspondent (2006) — Autor — 1,308 exemplars
Spies of Warsaw (2008) 1,198 exemplars
The Polish Officer (1995) 1,156 exemplars
Dark Star (1991) 1,156 exemplars
Mission to Paris (2012) — Autor — 1,069 exemplars
Kingdom of Shadows (2000) 1,062 exemplars
Spies of the Balkans (2010) — Autor — 1,036 exemplars
Blood of Victory (2002) 951 exemplars
The World at Night (1996) 919 exemplars
Dark Voyage (2004) 889 exemplars
Red Gold (1999) 800 exemplars
Midnight in Europe (2014) 696 exemplars
A Hero of France (2016) 617 exemplars
Under Occupation (2019) 289 exemplars

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El Ministeri de la por (1943) — Introducció, algunes edicions1,637 exemplars

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Data de naixement
1941-02-20
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
USA
País (per posar en el mapa)
USA
Lloc de naixement
New York, New York, USA
Llocs de residència
Paris, France
Educació
Horace Mann School, New York, New York, USA
Pennsylvania State University
Columbia University
Oberlin College
Professions
novelist
advertising
columnist
Nota de desambiguació
#1 Alan Furst, b. 1941 - Night Soldiers

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Alan Furst
Publicado: 2006 | 228 páginas
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A finales del invierno de 1938 cientos de intelectuales italianos huyeron del régimen fascista de Mussolini y hallaron un refugio incierto en París. Allí, en medio de las dificultades propias de la vida del emigrado, fundaron varias células de resistencia que, mediante periódicos clandestinos, enviaban noticias y aliento a Italia. Combatiendo el fascismo con máquinas de escribir, sacaron a la luz más de quinientas publicaciones.… (més)
 
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libreriarofer | Hi ha 32 ressenyes més | Mar 12, 2024 |
This one was very full of the machinations of spying but the personal narrative didn't hold my interest. HI found it hard to connect to the main character in a meaningful, empathetic way.
 
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jsmick | Hi ha 24 ressenyes més | Mar 3, 2024 |
We begin The World at Night on the 10th of May in 1940 before dawn. Jean-Claude Casson, film producer of forty-two years of age, is in bed with his assistant, Gabriella Vico. The phone rings...it's Casson's wife. Marie-Claire wants to talk about the dinner party she and Jean-Claude are throwing that night. Does this not sound like the start to a torrid romance novel? Far from it (although there is passion within the pages)! By the end of the first chapter Casson has received a telegram recalling him back to active duty. The Germans are on the move and will occupy France shortly. Without warning Corporal Casson is pulled into a completely different life and, after three months when he returns home to Paris, the old life he left behind has completely vanished. As a movie producer he needs a way to stay useful in the eyes of the enemy. What can he do to earn a living during the German occupation? Somehow, in some way, this line of work makes him the perfect recruit for espionage. The only convincing he would need would be political. Which side are you on, boy? This question becomes pertinent when a simple lie traps Jean-Claude. He realizes no one is one hundred percent evil or one hundred percent good which makes the danger all that more a stark reality. You don't know of whom you should stay clear or who you can trust.
If you are looking for a spy thriller with lots of violence, The World at Night is not for you. The dangers are subtle and barely suggested. Instead, Furst is a master of detail. From fashion and the automobiles to the food and drink and music, the culture of Paris lives and breathes alongside its society. Furst's imagery is perfection: what do you picture when he describes a young woman as having "hen-strangler hands"? Furst takes you into 1940s Paris with love. A commentary on authenticity. I believe authenticity comes from the ability to faithfully mimic primary sources; the ability to take first-hand accounts and recreate them exactly. Once you see faithful details repeated you assume a truthful interpretation. Such is The World at Night.
Speaking of characters and love, I could not help but fall in love with Jean-Claude Casson. His mature passion for beautiful women and the way he makes each one feel as though she were the only one in his life...sigh. When he finally settles on one particular woman you root for them to be together.
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SeriousGrace | Hi ha 24 ressenyes més | Feb 20, 2024 |
synopsis | André Szara travels Western Europe in his role as foreign correspondent for Pravda, very aware of regional tensions especially between the German Reich and the Soviet Union. Sporadically linked to the NKVD (Soviet intelligence) and then only as mandated by his editor or NKVD itself, he finds himself increasingly involved in events both abroad and within the Soviet Union. Soon Szara's activities tilt more toward espionage than journalism, and despite a desire to avoid doing more than is necessary, he begins to question whether personal survival is best served by more or less involvement in the confusing groups of clandestine actors working to push their various agendas.

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Furst acknowledged in 2009 that various thematic subseries exist within his Night Soldiers works. Dark Star falls within the the first "panoramic" trilogy, featuring multiple characters like the first novel, but focusing on one primary character rather than two or three, and taking place across a narrower span of his chosen historical period, 1930-1945. Here we follow Szara from Autumn 1937 into Autumn 1940. Even so, Dark Star covers a lot of geographical ground and references many historical events, including Kristallnacht, Stalin's ongoing purges within the Soviet Union, the Wehrmacht's invasion of Poland, and the outlines of what would become Operation Barbarossa.

A key thematic focus is Furst's examination of the Jewish experience at this time. The novel is episodic perhaps in order to show the many aspects of the coming Holocaust, signs evident for those who are watching. Many borders are closed to Jews by governments officially condemning pogroms in other states, effectively supporting those practices. Some Jews on various sides work together, a parallel world alongside the bloody politics the "rest of the world" attends to. Even Stalin's purges are depicted from this lens: a means for conducting another pogrom, "a gift to the serfs" a la Tsarist history. Szara's personal experience ends up emblematic of many Europeans' of the time, he was born in one country, raised in another; he serves the media of Soviet Russia while living in Western Europe; and all the while remains mindful of his Jewish origins and what that makes him in the eyes of others.
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