书名：The Pigeon Tunnel 鸽子通道

作者：John Le Carre

出版社名称：Penguin

出版时间：2017

语种：英语

ISBN：9780241976890

商品尺寸：12.9 x 2.5 x 19.8 cm

包装：平装

★从军情五处的间谍，到英国殿堂级小说家。《柏林谍影》作者约翰·勒卡雷的唯一回忆录。
★他是约翰 勒卡雷，也是大卫 康威尔，近四十个人生片段，狙击一个伟大小说家充满矛盾与挣扎的自我。
★间谍生涯与小说写作其实是天造地设的一对。两者都要随时准备好去窥视人类的罪过，以及通往背叛的种种途径。
★有一种鸽子天生就被培养成狩猎游戏的靶子，它们飞越专门修建的漫长隧道，而出口就是猎人们的枪口。

这是英国殿堂级小说大师勒卡雷的人生故事，记下了他人生中近四十个刻骨铭心的片段，再现一个伟大作家的双重身份和多重自我。他目睹残酷战争与冷血杀伐；他跟着战地记者藏身壕沟，子弹擦着他的耳边飞过；他采访狱中的恐怖分子，却被对方堵得哑口无言；他目睹苏联巨变前后的社会，感慨万千；他见证了布罗茨基获得诺奖的瞬间，也亲历了电影大师弗里茨 朗的失意；他写下骗子父亲与自己既疏离又难舍的亲情，并苦苦思索间谍与作家的异同。
“逃避与欺骗是我童年非有不可的武器。青少年时期，我们都是某种间谍，而我却早已是退役的老兵。情报世界拥我入怀的时候，感觉就像回到家一样。”

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I'm sitting now.' From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion, to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, John le Carre has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carre is as funny as he is incisive - reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels.Whether he's writing about the parrot at a Beirut hotel that could perfectly mimic machine gun fire, or visiting Rwanda's museums of the unburied dead in the aftermath of the genocide, or celebrating New Year's Eve with Yasser Arafat, or interviewing a German terrorist in her desert prison in the Negev, or watching Alec Guinness preparing for his role as George Smiley, or des cribing the female aid worker who inspired the main character in his The Constant Gardener, le Carre endows each happening with vividness and humour, now making us laugh out loud, now inviting us to think anew about events and people we believed we understood. Best of all, le Carre gives us a glimpse of a writer's journey over more than six decades, and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life and heart to his fictional characters. 'No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times' Guardian 'John le Carre is as recognizable a writer as Dickens or Austen' Financial Times 'When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carre ...

John le Carré was born in 1931. His third novel, THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, secured him a wide reputation which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY, THE HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY and SMILEY'S PEOPLE. His other novels include THE CONSTANT GARDENER, A MOST WANTED MAN and OUR KIND OF TRAITOR.