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Sto caricando le informazioni... Tangierdi Stephen Holgate
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Loved it! one of the top 5 books I read this year. All of the characters you want in a spy thriller. I could see and almost taste Tangier as I disappeared for hours on end into this book! ( ) I quite enjoyed this combination of mystery, espionage, and journey to self-discovery set in Morocco. It employs a dual timeline narrative, one set in WWII where a French diplomat has fled to Tangier to avoid becoming part of the Vichy government, and the other set in 1995 in which a son searches for the father he has never known. It is evenly paced, where pieces of the puzzle are gradually revealed within each story, and they eventually converge into a satisfying conclusion. Holgate captures the flavor of the Tangier, its customs, cultures, architecture, vistas, and histories. It is filled with spies, smugglers, con artists, and colorful characters. Protagonist Christopher Chaffee starts off as a pretty unlikeable guy, but over the course of his time in Morocco, he experiences a personal awakening, inspired by his interactions with people who are very different from him, especially in their ways of thinking about what is important in life. The writing is evocative: “After the relentless gloom of France, the streets of Tangier looked like a street carnival. The Mediterranean sun saturated every corner of the noisy, crowded markets and bustling streets—the reds and blues, greens and whites of the djellabas, the striped awnings of shaded doorways, the painted polyglot signs above the shops and restaurants. Even in the shadowed lanes of the medina, the sun suffused the soft greens and blues that trimmed the whitewashed walls.” The storyline seems plausible, without any over-the-top components that often mar a book of this type. It will appeal to readers that enjoy historical mysteries set in exotic places. Author Stephen Holgate's debut novel, Tangier, is part modern day mystery, part WWII spy story. He drew on his own memories as a diplomat serving at the American Embassy in Morocco for inspiration. The story captures the fascination of Morocco – its rich history and how people, particularly foreigners, can come adrift there. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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A LETTER FROM THE PAST FORCES A DISGRACED BUREAUCRAT TO CONFRONT HIS FUTURE TANGIER tells two parallel stories: one, a mystery, and the other a spy story set fifty years apart and told in a series of alternating sections. In the first, we follow Christopher Chaffee, a disgraced Washington power broker whose father, a French diplomat, died in a Vichy prison in 1944--or so he had always believed until a letter, received decades after it was posted, upends his life. Soon he is reluctantly inspecting the corkscrew of his own life as he searches the narrow lanes and twisted souls of Tangier's ancient medina in search of the father he never knew. The second is a tale of espionage and betrayal, set in Morocco during WWII. Rene Laurent, Christopher's father, struggles to maintain his integrity--and his life--in the snake pit of wartime Tangier. The stories slowly intertwine as Christopher unravels the mystery of his father's fate, and Laurent becomes trapped in a web of lies and corruption, and caught up, too, in the arms of a woman he knows he shouldn't trust. Ultimately, TANGIER is the story of fathers and sons, the alienation of being a stranger in a strange land, the seductive face of betrayal and, finally, the lengths we'll go to for redemption. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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