The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life

The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life

â€œRecounted with the storytelling Ã©lan of a master raconteur â€” by turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy.â€ -Michiko Kakutani,Â The New York Times

The New York Times bestselling memoir from John le CarrÃ©, the legendary author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy;Â The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; andÂ The Night Manager, now an Emmy-nominated television series starring Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie.Â

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 CarrÃ©Â has always written from the heart of modern times.Â In this, his first memoir,Â le CarrÃ© 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 Beethovenâ€™s Fifth; visiting Rwandaâ€™s museums of the unburied dead in the aftermath of the genocide; celebrating New Yearâ€™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 ofÂ Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, SpyÂ and Smileyâ€™s People; or describing the female aid worker who inspired the main character inÂ The Constant Gardener, le CarrÃ© 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 CarrÃ© gives us a glimpse of a writerâ€™s journey over more than six decades, and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life and heart to his fictional characters.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Brand Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer Penguin Audio
Binding Audio CD
ItemPartNumber 9780735210042
Color Red
ReleaseDate 2016-09-06
UnitCount 10
Format Audiobook
EANs 9780735210042

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer	Penguin Audio
Binding	Audio CD
ItemPartNumber	9780735210042
Color	Red
ReleaseDate	2016-09-06
UnitCount	10
Format	Audiobook
EANs	9780735210042

The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life

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