- John LE CARRE, George Smiley #8, British, Fiction
**The rules of the game, and of the world, have changed. Old enemies now yield to glasnost and perestroika. The killing shadows of the Cold War are flooded with light. The future is unfathomable.**
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Grave, nostalgic, epic and meticulous.
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- rawmeticulous
- earnestironic
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- John le Carré
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Coronet, Distributed by Random House, Random House Large Print
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- German, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9785554945717
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 2 have read it and 15 want to.
David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré was a British Irish author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television. A "sophisticated, morally ambiguous writer", he is considered one of the greatest novelists of the postwar era. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Near the end of his life, due to his strong disapproval of Brexit, he took out Irish citizenship, which was possible due to his having an Irish grandparent. Le Carré's third novel, *The Spy Who Came in from the Cold* (1963), became an
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
A legacy of spies 201777% alikeBoth nostalgic, meticulous.
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life 201575% alikeBoth epic, meticulous.
Both grave.
Both grave, epic, nostalgic.
Spinning Silver 201872% alikeBoth grave, epic, earnest.
Any human heart 200271% alikeBoth grave, epic.
Angle of repose 197171% alikeBoth grave, earnest, nostalgic.
The Buried Giant 200171% alikeBoth grave, earnest.
Broken Roads 202477% alikeGame · Both grave, nostalgic, earnest.
Chaplin 199275% alikeFilm · Both grave, earnest.