Състояние: Добро
Забележка: Използвана, здраво и чисто книжно тяло, незначително наранена задна корица, леко захабен външен вид.
Издателство: Abacus
Град на издаване: London
Наличност: singular
Ширина (мм): 130
Височина (мм): 200
Дебелина (мм): 25
Корици: Меки

‘Masterly... A tour de force that grips and never lets gu
Max Davidson, Mail on Sunday

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Half French, half British, Marian Sutro has always been an outsider. But after being recruited by SOE to go undercover, it seems her hybrid status - and fluent French - will be put to good use. Marian finds herself parachuting into south-west France, having been trained in sabotage, how to perform under interrogation and how to kill.

Her real destination, however, is Occupied Paris, where she must seek out old family friend Clement Pelletier, a nuclear physicist of urgent significance to her superiors. As she struggles towards this reunion, she realises that war changes everything, and neither love nor fatherland can be trusted.

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‘I read late into the night and cried a little when I was done. Mawer’s set pieces are so beautiful you want to read them two or three times over. He writes about fear and about bravery better than any contemporary novelist I know’
Rachel Cooke, Observer

‘Mawer is a genuinely great contemporary writer’
Simon Schama, Financial Times

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About the Author

Simon Mawer was born in England in 1948 and spent his childhood moving backwards and forwards from England to Malta and Cyprus. He has lived in Italy for over thirty years, teaching at an international school in Rome. He is the author of two works of non-fiction and eight other novels, including: Mendel’s Dwarf, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize; The Fall, which won the Boardman Tasker Prize; A Jealous God; The Bitter Cross; The Gospel of Judas; and The Glass Room, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2009.