Celia's secret : an investigation / Michael Frayn and David Burke

Frayn, Michael; Burke, David

ISBN 10: 0571205305 / ISBN 13: 9780571205301

Edité par London : Faber, 2000

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Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. SIGNED by both authors. Physical description: viii, 110 pages ; 20 cm. Subjects: Heisenberg, Werner 1901-1976; Bohr, Niels 1885-1962; Nuclear weapons Germany History; World War, 1939-1945 Germany; Impostors and imposture; Germany. 1 Kg.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Celia's secret : an investigation / Michael Frayn and David Burke
• Éditeur: London : Faber
• Date de parution: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0571205305
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780571205301
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: First Edition.
• Poids: 1 kilogramme
• Signé: Signé par l'auteur

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Synopsis

One day during the run of Michael Frayn's play Copenhagen, a curious letter arrived from a housewife in Chiswick. She enclosed a few faded pages of barely legible German which she thought might have some relevance to the mystery at the play's heart. They turn out to mark the start of a long and winding trail.The subject of Copenhagen is the strange visit that the German physicist, Werner Heisenberg, made to his former Danish colleague Niels Bohr in 1941. The two old friends now found themselves on opposite sides in a world war, and Heisenberg could not explain to Bohr that he was running the Nazis' secret atomic programme. His intentions have intrigued and baffled historians, and the hitherto unpublished German documents which Celia Rhys-Evans now began to send Michael Frayn cast a remarkable new light on certain aspects of the story.

À propos de l?auteur

Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. His novels include Towards the End of the Morning, The Trick of It and A Landing on the Sun. Headlong was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize, Whitbread Novel Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. His thirteen plays range from Noises Off to Copenhagen, and he has translated a number of works, mostly from Russian. He is married to the biographer and critic Claire Tomalin.