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The Constant Gardener by John Le Carre (2005)

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Author: John Le CarreFormat: --
Publisher: Simon & Schuster AudioworksISBN-10: 0743551842
ISBN-13: 9780743551847Length: Abridged
Category: FictionCondition: New
Sub-Category: Mystery, Thriller  
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Tessa Quayle, the lovely wife of a member of the British Foreign Service based in Nairobi, is killed in a mysterious car accident near a lake in Kenya. Tessa was an activist who had recently come across sensitive documents exposing an international corporate conspiracy to exploit Kenya's poor. Tessa's husband, Justin, has been a mild-mannered official for decades, but when he decides to get to the bottom of Tessa's death, he discovers that he has an unexpected capacity to go against the grain. He'll need it, as his journey to the truth takes him through many levels of corporate and diplomatic intrigue in Kenya, Great Britain, Italy, Germany, and Canada. This novel by master of the spy thriller John Le Carre was adapted into a 2005 film starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz.

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Height:5.8 in.
Width:5.3 in.
Thickness:1.0 in.
Weight:6.4 oz.

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"THE CONSTANT GARDENER exposes an ugly secret in which, knowingly or not, we are all complicit."
Houston Chronicle  (01/04/2001)

"Because he writes elegantly and because his characters engage us, we do not stop to wonder how well le Carre's discourse holds up. Though sentimentality is hard to resist, hostility to authority is not always a virtue, and the superior righteousness of the oppressed remains, as the Scots say, unproven."
Los Angeles Times - Eugen Weber (01/14/2001)

"With THE CONSTANT GARDENER, le Carre proves once more that the themes of deception and betrayal that run through his work need nothing as dramatic as the Cold War for their expression; unbridled capitalism works just as well in exposing the flaws of human morality."
Chicago Tribune - Chris Petrakos (01/14/2001)

"Richly detailed, full of righteous fire to offset its desperate prognosis, THE CONSTANT GARDENER is a very impressive piece of work. It is certainly on of John le Carre's best."
Times Literary Supplement - Sean O'Brien (01/15/2001)

"THE CONSTANT GARDENER's conclusion may be somber, but the book breathes life, anger and excitement until the casual, near brutal realism of its last sentence."
Guardian (London) - Nigel Williams (12/17/2000)

"THE CONSTANT GARDENER reveals a new and far more Dickensian le Carré....But where in Dickens the desire to improve the real world--to weigh in on the subject of debtor's prisons or child labor in factories--never interfered with creating a supremely inviting fictional world, one senses an impatience in THE CONSTANT GARDENER, as if le Carré were chafing at his eagerness to have us admire his heroine as he does, to get us to believe. Taking sides with the angels, his novel unabashedly wears its heart on its sleeve."
New York Times Book Review - Rand Richards Cooper (01/07/2001)

"The novel dramatically bares what the accumulation of fact or a high-minded dialectic will never disclose. No serious novelist can do more. To be sure, Le Carré has never quite gotten his due in literary England.... [But] that realm's neglect may ultimately be proof of Le Carré's genius."
Washington Post Book World - Shannon Hamrick (12/14/2000)

Le Carré is...a thoroughgoing literary artist....He deserves to be considered a major writer....[H]e sits more comfortably in the company of Bellow and Roth and Updike than the Forsyths and Ludlums of the world. THE CONSTANT GARDENER is a worthy addition to his large and consistently impressive oeuvre."
San Francisco Chronicle - Erik Tarloff (12/31/2000)


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