Absolute Friends (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John le Carre
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1968-2003
- Setting: Berlin, Munich, Heidelberg, and London
- Principal Characters: Edward (Teddy) Mundy, Sasha, Dimitri, Orville J. Rourke, Nick Amory, Kate, Zara
- Genres: Long fiction, Adventure, Spy fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, 1970’s, Europe or Europeans, 1980’s, England or English people, Espionage or spies, 1990’s, Germany or German people, Great Britain, Berlin, 2000’s
- Locales: Berlin, Germany, Munich, Germany
Absolute Friends marks John le Carré's highly controversial foray into the post-Cold War world of shifting alliances, international tensions, and unlikely collaborations which stem from personal and national histories and unleash their disastrous effects in the novel's present, 2003. Le Carré established himself as a master of the espionage genre with his third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), a realistic treatment of the spy world that served as a stark contrast to the then-popular chronicles of James Bond penned by Ian Fleming. In a total of seventeen...
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