The Constant Gardener
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.39 (500 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0754054438 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 185 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Very nearly. His sprinting thriller prose remains in great shape. So has Quayle's complacency. Her report was destroyed by her husband's superiors; was she? It's all somehow connected to the sinister British firm House of ThreeBees, whose ad boasts that it's "buzzy for the health of Africa!" John le Carré symbolically associates ThreeBees with an ominous buzz in the Nairobi morgue: "Over the corpses, in a swaying, muddy mist, hung the flies, snoring on a single note." The home office tries to take Quayle in out of the cold. British diplomat Justin Quayle, complacent raiser of freesias and doting husband of the stunning, much younger Tessa, has tended his own garden in Nairobi too long. And thanks to his 16 years in the British Foreign Office, his me
Sugar & Spice said I view The Constant Gardener as an incredible story of love and loyalty. Years ago I saw the movie The Constant Gardener and it has never left me, always floating around in the back of my brain for some reason. Then I decided to read the book (something I've never done after seeing the movie first), and I am now left almost speechless due to the overwhelming emotions the author stirred and deepened in me from beginning to end. The author's writing style and the vo. "Impressive" according to Kindle Customer. Without giving away spoilers, I can honestly say this was a very fast paced book for how realistic it is and how most characters had their unlikable and likable sides. My first John le Carre book but I will be reading more! I highly recommend this book for anyone who is interested in tragic whistleblower stories.. Marty Reeh said I love John Le Carre. Don't listen to anyone who says this is not worth reading. I love John Le Carre, but some of his books, "Spy Who Came in from the Cold", "The Russia House", "The Little Drummer Girl:, "A Perfect Spy", didn't do much for me. However I loved the "Honorable Schoolboy" trilogy, and George Smiley remains my favorite character. This book is deeply intriguing and absorbing. You feel for Justin and T
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. His eighteenth novel is also the profoundly moving story of a man whom tragedy elevates. The Constant Gardener is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time.. Frightening, heartbreaking, and exquisitely calibrated, John le Carré's new novel opens with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle near northern Kenya's Lake Turkana, the birthplace of mankind. Tessa's much older husband, Justin, a career diplomat at the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive. Her putative African lover and traveling companion, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has va