Bibliograph

The constant gardener, a novel, John le Carre

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The constant gardener, a novel, John le Carre

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The constant gardener

Oclc number

26994145320514

Responsibility statement

John le Carre

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Frightening, heartbreaking, and exquisitely calibrated, John le Carre's new novel opens with the greusome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle near northern Kenya's Lake Turkana, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover and traveling companion, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has vanished from the scene of the crime. Tessa's much holder husband, Justin, a career diplomate at the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive. A master chronicler of the deceptions and betrayals of ordinary people caught in political conflict, le Carre portrays, in The Constant Gardener, the dark side of the unbridled capitalism. His eighteenth novel is also the profoundly moving story of a man whom tragedy elevates. Justin Quayle, amateur gardener and ineffectual bureaucrat, seemingly oblivious to his wife's cause, discovers his own resources and the extraordinary courage of the woman he barely had time to love. The Constant Gardener is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time

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