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Duvornas tunnel : berättelser från mitt liv (2016)

av John le Carré

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Biography & Autobiograph Politic Nonfictio HTML:??Recounted with the storytelling élan of a master raconteur ?? by turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy.? -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
The New York Times bestselling memoir from John le Carré, the legendary author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, SpyThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold; and The Night Manager, now an Emmy-nominated television series starring Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie. 

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 Carré has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carré 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 Beethoven??s Fifth; visiting Rwanda??s museums of the unburied dead in the aftermath of the genocide; celebrating New Year??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 of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley??s People; or describing the female aid worker who inspired the main character in The Constant Gardener, le Carré 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 Carré gives us a glimpse of a writer??s journey over more than six decades, and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life
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Fascinating tales from a full life as a spy and a writer and much more. Throughly enjoyable. I am going to hang onto my copy as I now read my way through all of his books. ( )
  fmclellan | Jan 23, 2024 |
Probably only 5* for Le Carré completists, but I really enjoyed this. One to re-read. ( )
  thisisstephenbetts | Nov 25, 2023 |
Coming In From the Cold
Review of the Penguin Books Kindle eBook & paperback (September 8, 2016) of the Viking hardcover original (September 6, 2016).

Close by the old casino stood the sporting club, and at its base lay a stretch of lawn and a shooting range looking out to sea. Under the lawn ran small, parallel tunnels that emerged in a row at the sea’s edge. Into them were inserted live pigeons that had been hatched and trapped on the casino roof. Their job was to flutter their way along the pitch-dark tunnel until they emerged in the Mediterranean sky as targets for well-lunched sporting gentlemen who were standing or lying in wait with their shotguns. Pigeons who were missed or merely winged then did what pigeons do. They returned to the place of their birth on the casino roof, where the same traps awaited them. Quite why this image has haunted me for so long is something the reader is perhaps better able to judge than I am.


I read The Pigeon Tunnel in advance of seeing its film adaptation next week at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The book consists of anecdotes in rough chronological order from spy author David Cornwell's (who wrote using the penname John le Carré) life and career. There are stories about other authors (esp. Graham Greene), actors, filmmakers, spies, activists and political figures. An extended chapter about Cornwell's conman father Ronnie is reserved until the end of the book. You can read an extended series of excerpts at my Kindle Notes and Highlights for the book.

See poster at https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNDlhZTMyNTktZTg1Ni00YTdiLWJhMzQtOTRlYTBm...
Promotional poster for the 2023 film adaptation of "The Pigeon Tunnel". Image sourced from Internet Movie Database (IMDb).

As a lifelong Carré reader I enjoyed the book immensely, especially the anecdotes about the stories behind the films and TV adaptations which were made and those which were planned but never completed. It didn't break into 5 star territory as you still get the feeling that the author holds back on much of his life (it isn't a full autobiography of course), but I can't imagine any fan being disappointed.

Trivia and Links
The Pigeon Tunnel has been adapted as a documentary film by Errol Morris based around John le Carré's final interview before his passing. It will have its Canadian Premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2023 (after World Premiering at the remote Telluride Film Festival September 1, 2023) and will have a general online streaming release on October 20, 2023 via Apple+. Read the TIFF background to the film here and watch a teaser trailer here.

See photograph at https://media.rightmove.co.uk/49k/48638/139336214/48638_TRS210037_IMG_00_0000.jp...
John le Carré's home in Cornwall, England which was recently put up for sale. Image sourced from RightMove Co. UK. [Note: Links worked as of September 10, 2023. Image and link may no longer be available once the house is sold.] ( )
  alanteder | Sep 10, 2023 |
This loose memoir was very uneven for me - some events held my interest, but most did not, which is the opposite of what I expected from an ex-MI5 agent and renowned author. ( )
  bookwyrmm | May 4, 2023 |
A collection of memories and stories much more than any traditional memoir and i enjoyed it a great deal. Some stories were funny but they were mixed in with more dramatic or meaningful ones. The longest and perhaps most challenging was the one about his father, a con man and inspiration for The Naive and Sentimental Lover, the one novel I have never liked. But overall it reminded me how much I enjoy his writing and what a great loss that there will be no more novels.
  amyem58 | Dec 21, 2022 |
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Biography & Autobiograph Politic Nonfictio HTML:??Recounted with the storytelling élan of a master raconteur ?? by turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy.? -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
The New York Times bestselling memoir from John le Carré, the legendary author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, SpyThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold; and The Night Manager, now an Emmy-nominated television series starring Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie. 

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 Carré has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carré 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 Beethoven??s Fifth; visiting Rwanda??s museums of the unburied dead in the aftermath of the genocide; celebrating New Year??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 of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley??s People; or describing the female aid worker who inspired the main character in The Constant Gardener, le Carré 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 Carré gives us a glimpse of a writer??s journey over more than six decades, and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life

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