Yssa il buono 
Simmering and smouldering its way through Hamburg, A Most Wanted Man is a masterclass in pace, suspense, and tension. Touches upon quite a lot of important debates with the story and its handling, but I felt the grip loosening just a bit in the middle of the book. I shouldn't have worried, though: The shattering climax comes at you swiftly and suddenly, and the by the time I closed the book and stood up, I knew I had been told a story I would remember.Peace be upon you, Issa.
One of the best spy novels I've ever read. LeCarre writes with an exquisite economy; there is not a wasted passage. Though the author is intimate with the spy game and has done much research for this book the reader is never oppressed with pages of research as in so many other books by so many other authors for which much research was done. Every sentence moves the story along and the art with which the author makes the reader think is brilliant.This is a timely story of post 9/11 frantic

(John le Carré - image from TheArtsDesk.com A young Muslim man or uncertain origin, scarred from extensive torture, finds his way into Hamburg and inquires into a large account, set up by his father, held in a private bank. A middle-aged banker reawakens to the existence of certain special accounts set up during the cold war by people of questionable repute, stowing ill-gotten money. An idealistic young lawyer tries to see that her client, the Muslim, is able to fulfill his financial desires.
I haven't read a lot of post-Cold War Le Carre, and the 'war on terror' has never been one of my preferred settings for a spy thriller, but nonetheless I found A Most Wanted Man to be a gripping novel, slow burning in typical Le Carre fashion and featuring a cast of captivating characters. I haven't seen the film adaptation, but I nonetheless couldn't help picturing Philip Seymour Hoffman in my mind when reading Gunther Bachmann's dialogue.
Updated, having seen the movie: https://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpre...I hesitate about putting this on my better-written-than-Harry-Potter shelf. It is and it isn't.Poor le Carré. He needed a new day job after the Cold War made his old one irrelevant. The stuff he's churned out since is hopeless. He doesn't have a clue how to understand anybody except Cold War spies. I bought this for 3 francs and I read about that much worth of it. Moving on now.
I feel like John le Carre is thought of as the grand old man of spy fiction. But his books really aren't what I tend to think of when I think of spy novels--they're always about world-weary bureaucrats doing grubby things that they know better than to be doing, about sad beat-up men whose best efforts generally just bring them, and everyone around them, more sadness. No high-tech gadgets or thrilling derring-do here--just an unhappy story with an unhappy ending. But gorgeously written.
John le Carré
Paperback | Pages: 345 pages Rating: 3.51 | 10672 Users | 1154 Reviews

Present Appertaining To Books Yssa il buono
| Title | : | Yssa il buono |
| Author | : | John le Carré |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 345 pages |
| Published | : | 2009 by Mondadori (first published 2008) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Thriller. Spy Thriller. Espionage. Mystery |
Representaion In Pursuance Of Books Yssa il buono
Chi è lo sconosciuto gracile e male in arnese, avvolto in un cappottone nero, in cui Melik, immigrato turco di seconda generazione nato ad Amburgo, continua a imbattersi? Dopo l'11 settembre la vita del giovane, devoto musulmano e promessa della boxe, soffre di equilibri precari, e lui farebbe di tutto pur di non cacciarsi nei guai. Ma sua madre, che considera un dovere prestare aiuto a un compagno di fede, decide di dare ospitalitĂ allo straniero. Lo strano ragazzo, che dice di chiamarsi Yssa Karpov, rivela di essere un profugo ceceno fuggito da un carcere russo e di essere entrato in Germania clandestinamente con l'intenzione di studiare medicina, grazie anche all'aiuto che gli verrĂ fornito da Tommy Brue. Peccato che Brue non abbia idea di chi lui sia. Il ceceno, perĂ², è in possesso di una misteriosa parola d'ordine capace di ridestare improvvisamente il passato: "lipizzano". Quando Brue sente questo termine per bocca di Annabel Richter, avvocato specializzato nell'assistenza agli immigrati a cui Yssa si è rivolto, sa che non si riferisce alla nobile razza di cavalli di origine slovena. Lipizzano è la parola in codice con cui suo padre indicava ingenti e loschi capitali travasati dall'Unione Sovietica nelle casse della sua banca. John le CarrĂ© torna con una storia che si confronta con gli aspetti piĂ¹ ambigui della contemporaneitĂ , ponendo l'accento sulle contraddizioni delle democrazie occidentali e sull'arroganza del potere nei confronti dei piĂ¹ deboli.Mention Books As Yssa il buono
| Original Title: | A Most Wanted Man |
| ISBN: | 8804591714 (ISBN13: 9788804591719) |
| Edition Language: | Italian |
| Characters: | Issa, Annabel, Tommy Brue |
| Setting: | Hamburg(Germany) |
Rating Appertaining To Books Yssa il buono
Ratings: 3.51 From 10672 Users | 1154 ReviewsAppraise Appertaining To Books Yssa il buono
John Le Carres Smiley novels are unquestionably masterpieces. However, with the collapse of the Soviet Union history pulled the carpet away from beneath him; since then he seems to have lost his relevance and is in danger of producing pastiches of himself.Theres nothing new about A Most Wanted Man. Though its subject is ostensibly the war on terror, the plot is familiar Le Carre territory: inter-service rivalry, complicated financial transactions, the impossibility of old-fashioned values in aSimmering and smouldering its way through Hamburg, A Most Wanted Man is a masterclass in pace, suspense, and tension. Touches upon quite a lot of important debates with the story and its handling, but I felt the grip loosening just a bit in the middle of the book. I shouldn't have worried, though: The shattering climax comes at you swiftly and suddenly, and the by the time I closed the book and stood up, I knew I had been told a story I would remember.Peace be upon you, Issa.
One of the best spy novels I've ever read. LeCarre writes with an exquisite economy; there is not a wasted passage. Though the author is intimate with the spy game and has done much research for this book the reader is never oppressed with pages of research as in so many other books by so many other authors for which much research was done. Every sentence moves the story along and the art with which the author makes the reader think is brilliant.This is a timely story of post 9/11 frantic

(John le Carré - image from TheArtsDesk.com A young Muslim man or uncertain origin, scarred from extensive torture, finds his way into Hamburg and inquires into a large account, set up by his father, held in a private bank. A middle-aged banker reawakens to the existence of certain special accounts set up during the cold war by people of questionable repute, stowing ill-gotten money. An idealistic young lawyer tries to see that her client, the Muslim, is able to fulfill his financial desires.
I haven't read a lot of post-Cold War Le Carre, and the 'war on terror' has never been one of my preferred settings for a spy thriller, but nonetheless I found A Most Wanted Man to be a gripping novel, slow burning in typical Le Carre fashion and featuring a cast of captivating characters. I haven't seen the film adaptation, but I nonetheless couldn't help picturing Philip Seymour Hoffman in my mind when reading Gunther Bachmann's dialogue.
Updated, having seen the movie: https://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpre...I hesitate about putting this on my better-written-than-Harry-Potter shelf. It is and it isn't.Poor le Carré. He needed a new day job after the Cold War made his old one irrelevant. The stuff he's churned out since is hopeless. He doesn't have a clue how to understand anybody except Cold War spies. I bought this for 3 francs and I read about that much worth of it. Moving on now.
I feel like John le Carre is thought of as the grand old man of spy fiction. But his books really aren't what I tend to think of when I think of spy novels--they're always about world-weary bureaucrats doing grubby things that they know better than to be doing, about sad beat-up men whose best efforts generally just bring them, and everyone around them, more sadness. No high-tech gadgets or thrilling derring-do here--just an unhappy story with an unhappy ending. But gorgeously written.


0 Comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.