Prague Spring - Couverture rigide

Mawer, Simon

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1408711141 ISBN 13 : 9781408711149

Editeur : Little, Brown, 2018

Synopsis

The gripping new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of The Glass Room and The Girl Who Fell From the Sky.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Simon Mawer was born in 1948 in England, and spent his childhood there, in Cyprus and in Malta. He then moved to Italy, where he and his family lived for more than thirty years, and taught at the British International School in Rome. He and his wife currently live in Hastings. Simon Mawer is the author of several novels including the Man Booker shortlisted The Glass Room, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky and Tightrope.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Praise for The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

'Streamlined and tautly paced . . . [Mawer] always keeps thepace brisk, the underlying tension high' Guardian

'As good as Le Carre . . . I have rarely read a novel thatmade fear so acute, so tangible . . . A novel of high intelligence and creativeimagination, strong in plot and wonderfully atmospheric' Allan Massie, Scotsman

'A stark, focused adventure . . . [A] skillfully andintelligently executed thriller' Washington Post

Praise for Tightrope

'A true master of literary espionage . . . Tightrope is gripping stuff' Mail on Sunday

'Mawer is a skilful writer and this is asophisticated, deviously constructed story' Nick Rennison, Sunday Times

'Mawer's period detail is perfect, and his prose impeccable'Ian Sansom, Guardian

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

It's the summer of 1968, the year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter. Two English students, Ellie and James, set off to hitch-hike across Europe with no particular aim in mind but a continent, and themselves, to discover. Somewhere in southern Germany they decide, on a whim, to visit Czechoslovakia where Alexander Dubcek's 'socialism with a human face' is smiling on the world.

Meanwhile Sam Wareham, a first secretary at the British embassy in Prague, is observing developments in the country with a mixture of diplomatic cynicism and a young man's passion. In the company of Czech student, Lenka Konecková, he finds a way into the world of Czechoslovak youth, its hopes and its ideas. It seems that, for the first time, nothing is off limits behind the Iron Curtain.

Yet the wheels of politics are grinding in the background. The Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev is making demands of Dubcek and the Red Army is massed on the borders. How will the looming disaster affect those fragile lives caught up in the invasion?

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Little, Brown
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1408711141
• ISBN 13: 9781408711149
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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