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John Le Carre - Our game
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Kunto: Hyvä
Hodder & Stoughton, year 1995
414 pages English
John le Carré got back to basics in this very compact spy novel which doesn’t set foot outside UK until the very end. It tells the story of Tim and Larry, two men bound by their past working for British intelligence but who, after being let go, are supposed to be living civil civilian lives in Somerset. But Larry just isn’t the quiet type and when he goes missing, Tim and his girlfriend Emma are dragged back into his old life …
I offer this review for Patti Abbott’s Friday’s Forgotten Books meme at her fab Pattinase blog.
“To kill without being killed is an illusion”
This is a very small-scale novel – our only point of view is that of Tim Cranmer, and our experience of the other two main characters is filtered entirely through him. But just how reliable a narrator is he? There is in fact a terrific twist about 100 pages in that really changes how we fell about the central character dynamic. The use of a strict point of view is very impressive and, when we learn that Tim’s girlfriend Emma has abandoned him for his oldest friend Larry, this starts to feel more like a Philip Roth tale of a man having a mid-life crisis than a spy caper as we experience his sense of loss, rage, jealousy and disappointment.
“Planned apathy is the best description I can think of: act natural and look the other way while the ethnic cleansers do their hoovering and restore what politicians call normality.”
Full book review
https://bloodymurder.wordpress.com/2017/03/17/our-game-1995-by-john-le-carre/
Same book 4 EUR
https://www.finlandiakirja.fi/fi/john-le-carre-our-game-b43436
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