Graham Greene: Our Man in Havana, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Our Man in Havana
- Verlag:
- Random House UK Ltd, 03/2001
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780099286080
- Artikelnummer:
- 2840536
- Umfang:
- 256 Seiten
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 2001
- Gewicht:
- 191 g
- Maße:
- 198 x 130 mm
- Stärke:
- 20 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 1.3.2001
- Serie:
- Vintage Classics
- Hinweis
-
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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|---|---|
| Buch, Leinen, ,, Englisch | EUR 11,17* |
Kurzbeschreibung
'No serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene' Time
Beschreibung
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts. His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him, so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted. In return all he has to do is carry out a little espionage and file a few reports. But when his fake reports start coming true, things suddenly get more complicated and Havana becomes a threatening place.
Rezension
"As comical, satirical, atmospherical an "entertainment" as he has given us" Simon Shepherd Daily Telegraph
Klappentext
A vacuum cleaner salesman becomes a spy by accident and a liar by design.
Jim Wormold lives quietly in pre-revolutionary Havana, selling vacuum cleaners to customers who can scarcely afford them. When a British intelligence officer offers him money to report on local activity, Wormold agrees. His daughter's expenses demand it.
Lacking real information, he invents it. Diagrams of military installations are drawn from appliance parts. Agents are imagined. Reports are filed. London believes every word.
What begins as improvisation gathers consequence. As his fabrications circulate through intelligence channels, other parties begin to act on them. In a city already thick with tension, fiction proves capable of generating its own danger.
Greene's espionage novel balances satire with unease, exposing how easily authority can be deceived and how quickly deception can turn fatal.
'British Intelligence being sent up something rotten' Daily Telegraph
Biografie
Graham Greene wurde 1904 in Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire, geboren. Nach seinem Studium der Geschichte in Oxford arbeitete er zunächst bei der "Times" in London, danach als Filmkritiker beim "Spectator". Die großen Reisen, die er unternahm - u. a. nach Westafrika und Asien - wurden auch zum Fundus für seine schriftstellerische Tätigkeit. Er wurde mehrmals als Kandidat für den Literaturnobelpreis gehandelt und zählt zu den bedeutendsten Schriftstellern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Greene starb 1991 in Genf.
