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HTML:??Recounted with the storytelling élan 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 Carré, the legendary author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; and The Night Manager, now an Emmy-nominated television series starring Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie.
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 Carré has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carré 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 Carré 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 Carré 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… (més)
Les memòries de John le Carré. Per primera vegada el mestre de l’espionatge ens revela els seus secrets, als 84 anys, l’autor britànic s’ha decidit a escriure-les. Volar en cercles és la història de la vida de l’autor. i és, per tant, la història de la segona meitat del segle XX, dels racons més foscos de la Guerra Freda fins als nostres dies, narrada amb el seu estil inimitable. Per primera vegada, Le Carré ens permet donar un cop d’ull al viatge d’un escriptor que al llarg de seixanta anys ha anat a la recerca de l’espurna humana que ha donat vida als seus personatges de ficció.
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To the creative writer, fact is raw material, not his taskmaster, but his instrument. And his task is to make it sing. Real truth lies, if anywhere, not in facts, but in nuance.
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Biography & Autobiograph
Politic
Nonfictio
HTML:??Recounted with the storytelling élan 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 Carré, the legendary author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; and The Night Manager, now an Emmy-nominated television series starring Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie.
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 Carré has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carré 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 Carré 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 Carré 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
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la Guerra Freda fins als nostres dies, narrada amb el seu estil inimitable.
Per primera vegada, Le Carré ens permet donar un cop d’ull al viatge d’un escriptor que al
llarg de seixanta anys ha anat a la recerca de l’espurna humana que ha donat vida als seus
personatges de ficció.