The Mission Song by Le Carre John
Bruno Salvador, known to friends and enemies alike as Salvo, is the ever-innocent, twenty-nine-year-old orphaned love-child of a Catholic Irish missionary and a Congolese headman's daughter. Educated first at mission school in the East Congolese province of Kivu, and later at a discreet sanctuary for the secret sons of Rome, Salvo is inspired by his mentor Brother Michael to train as a professional interpreter in the minority African languages of which, almost from birth, he has been an obsessive collector. Soon a rising star in his profession, he is courted by City corporations, hospitals, law courts, the Immigration services and -- inevitably -- the mushrooming overworld of British Intelligence. He is also courted -- and won -- by the all-white, Surrey-born Penelope, star reporter on one of our great national newspapers, whom with typical impulsiveness he promptly marries. Yet even as the story opens, a contrary and irresistible love is dawning in him. Despatched to a no-name island in the North Sea to attend a top-secret meeting between Western financiers and East Congolese warlords, Salvo is obliged to interpret matters never intended for his re-awoken African conscience.
Praise for John le Carre -- : 'Thoroughly gripping' -- Sunday Times on ABSOLUTE FRIENDS 'A literary master for a generation' -- Observer on ABSOLUTE FRIENDS 'Complex, often sardonically funny, always galvanically writtenIn fact his best book in years' -- Daily Express on ABSOLUTE FRIENDS 'Richly detailed, full of righteous fire to offset its desperate prognosis, THE CONSTANT GARDENER is a very impressive piece of work. It is certainly one of John le Carre's best books' -- The Times Literary Supplement 'Le Carre poses deep spiritual questions about the damage [the human race] has done, and continues to do, both to the planet and to itself. He does so in a page-turner which reminds us that the master storyteller of the Smiley books has lost none of his cunning' -- Daily Mail on THE CONSTANT GARDENER 'This is vintage John le Carre' -- Stella Rimington, The Times on ABSOLUTE FRIENDS 'Another classic narrative. Nobody writing today manipulates suspense better. Nobody constructs a more tantalisingly complex plot. A powerful, moving novel that stands with le Carre's best. It is, in other words, essential reading' -- Sunday Telegraph on THE CONSTANT GARDENER
John le Carre was born in 1931. His recent novels include ABSOLUTE FRIENDS, SINGLE & SINGLE (for which he was described as 'the essential voice of our time' by the Daily Telegraph)and THE CONSTANT GARDENER. THE MISSION SONG is his twentieth novel.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780340921975 |
| ISBN 10 | 0340921978 |
| Title | The Mission Song |
| Author | John Le Carr |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Year published | 2006-09-21 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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