Brandenburg

Šifra artikla: 226155
Isbn: 9780752864945
Autor: Henry Porter
Henry Porter's well-informed engrossing thrillers have previously dealt with today's headlines; Brandenburg is a powerful novel of espionage and betrayal set a mere decade and a half ago, in what is now an entirely different world. Art historian Rosenharte is compelled by the East German secret p...  Henry Porter's well-informed engrossing thrillers have previously dealt with today's headlines; Brandenburg is a powerful novel of espionage and betrayal set a mere decade and a half ago, in what is now an entirely different world. Art historian Rosenharte is compelled by the East German secret police to act as liaison with a British spy--they have arrested his brother's family--and finds himself caught in an endlessly recomplicated web of lies. It is more a question of how many factions Rosenharte can play off against each other before he is caught than of simple intelligence work--he lives in a society which is going into terminal meltdown, but the evil old men and their minions can still have people shot on a whim, for a few weeks more. This is a stunning evocation of the Cold War at its nastiest, and a salutary reminder of what it was about. Rosenharte is an attractive compromised hero--we find ourselves longing for this switchback plot to take him to safety and emotional fulfillment without any logical reason to believe that this is anything other than a story which is bound to end badly. In the end, hope is all he, and we, have. Detaljnije
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Henry Porter's well-informed engrossing thrillers have previously dealt with today's headlines; Brandenburg is a powerful novel of espionage and betrayal set a mere decade and a half ago, in what is now an entirely different world. Art historian Rosenharte is compelled by the East German secret police to act as liaison with a British spy--they have arrested his brother's family--and finds himself caught in an endlessly recomplicated web of lies. It is more a question of how many factions Rosenharte can play off against each other before he is caught than of simple intelligence work--he lives in a society which is going into terminal meltdown, but the evil old men and their minions can still have people shot on a whim, for a few weeks more. This is a stunning evocation of the Cold War at its nastiest, and a salutary reminder of what it was about. Rosenharte is an attractive compromised hero--we find ourselves longing for this switchback plot to take him to safety and emotional fulfillment without any logical reason to believe that this is anything other than a story which is bound to end badly. In the end, hope is all he, and we, have.
        Karakteristika Vrednost
        Kategorija CONTEMPORARY FICTION
        Autor Henry Porter
        Težina specifikacija 0.5 kg
        Pismo Latinica
        Povez Broš
        Godina2006
        Format11x17
        Strana592

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