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A Small Town in Germany (original 1968; edição 1978)

por John Le Carré (Autor)

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The British Embassy in Bonn is up in arms. Her Majesty's financially troubled government is seeking admission to Europe's Common Market just as anti-British factions are rising to power in Germany. Rioters are demanding reunification, and the last thing the Crown can afford is a scandal. Then Leo Harting - an embassy nobody - goes missing with a case full of confidential files. London sends Alan Turner to control the damage, but he soon realises that neither side really wants Leo found - alive.… (mais)
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Título:A Small Town in Germany
Autores:John Le Carré (Autor)
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3½***. I would probably have rated this one at just 3*** except for the fairly strong Epilogue chapter. This is a reread (along with Le Carre's other first five novels in an omnibus edition), not having read them in decades. ( )
  CurrerBell | Dec 19, 2023 |
Going back and swooping up the le Carrés that I've chronologically missed. This one (with The Naïve And Sentimental Lover) falls between The Looking Glass War and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Set in the contrived, and now barely memorable, West German capital of Bonn, the plot explores the post World War II landscape of Western Europe. It barely touches on the USSR and its Eastern European allies, but is much more interested in what should be more friendly relations - both in allied countries, and also between departments of the same country.

One of the UK's low-ranking diplomats in Bonn has gone missing, and a hard-bitten spy, Alan Turner, is sent from London to investigate. The permanent staff in Bonn seem to be more keen to avoid a scandal than discover what happened, infuriating Turner, and allowing le Carré to excavate some of the class divisions that run through so many of his books.

This feels to me something of a stepping stone toward Tinker Tailor - the plot - and its structure - is becoming more complicated than in the earlier books, and the characters more morally nuanced. Additionally there's a significant amount of internal monologue which I don't remember seeing in other le Carrés. For me, while not unsuccessful, it did detract a little from the cleanliness, the suave efficiency of le Carré's prose. ( )
  thisisstephenbetts | Nov 25, 2023 |
A Foreign Affair
Review of the Penguin Modern Classics paperback & Kindle eBook (2011) of the original Heinemann hardcover (1968).

Bonn isn’t pre-war, or war, or even post-war. It’s just a small town in Germany.


A Small Town in Germany does not feature the author's spymaster George Smiley & the Circus, his invented name for Britain's Secret Intelligence Service. It does take place in the Smileyverse as veteran Circus recruiter Steed-Asprey is briefly mentioned. It does involve a molehunter though. Alan Turner is with the Foreign Office and is sent to the British Embassy in Bonn, Germany (then the capital of West Germany) to investigate the disappearance of a minor embassy official. Meanwhile there is a groundswell of German Nationalist and anti-Western feeling embodied in the rise of a political figure.

Leo Harting had made himself quietly indispensable to the embassy staff by taking on tasks which others were reluctant to do. When he disappears it is discovered that various embassy files are gone with him. The suspicion is that he has defected to the Eastern Bloc. Curiously, various office items such as a lamp, tea kettle, file trolley etc. have gone missing over the past weeks as well. Turner meets with a certain amount of obstruction from embassy staff who are reluctant to think the worst of Harting.

See cover at https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cc/ASmallTownInGermany.jpg
Cover of the original 1968 Heinemann hardcover. Image sourced from Wikipedia.

Turner eventually uncovers the real reason for Harting's disappearance and events turn more dramatic for the final 20% or so of the book. I wasn't quite as taken with Turner as I have been with Smiley, so the preceding series of interviews with embassy staff were more a chore to get through. The overall cynical atmosphere of failed intelligence operations still carries over from the Circus novels.

I read A Small Town in Germany as part of my current ongoing Carré binge which began with seeing the biographical film The Pigeon Tunnel (2023) at the recent Toronto International Film Festival. It is one of his early books which I had never previously read.

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Read an appreciation (NOTE: includes SPOILERS) of A Small Town in Germany at SpyWrite.com by Jeff, May 11, 2017. ( )
  alanteder | Nov 15, 2023 |
I had no idea that the United Kingdom's​ bid to join the European Union was rejected. Twice! Reading a spy book set during their bid to join while Brexit is happening in real life tickles me a bit.

My first le Carré book, and it was a good one. Highly recommend. ( )
  blueskygreentrees | Jul 30, 2023 |
Alan Turner, agente de los servicios secretos británicos, es el encargado de buscar a Leo Harting, funcionario de la embajada británica en Bonn, quien se ha llevado consigo una serie de documentos comprometedores. La personalidad de Harting se va recomponiendo paulatinamente a través de los recuerdos contradictorios de sus colegas de la embajada. En Una pequeña ciudad en Alemania, John Le Carré retrata el mundo diplomático por dentro así como un renacer nacionalista alemán de signos inquietantes...
  Natt90 | Feb 23, 2023 |
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Alan Turner, agente de los servicios secretos británicos, es encargado de buscar a Leo Harting, funcionario de la embajada británica en Bonn, quien se ha llevado consigo una serie de documentos comprometedores.
La personalidad de Harting se va recomponiendo paulatinamente a través de los recuerdos contradictorios de sus colegas de la embajada.
adicionada por Pakoniet | editarLecturalia
 
The final explanation is unexpected -- but, when it comes, is immediately convincing. "A Small Town in Germany" is an exciting, compulsively readable and brilliantly plotted novel. Le Carré has shown once more that he can write this kind of book better than anyone else around -- and he has done so without repeating himself.
adicionada por John_Vaughan | editarNY Times, Richard Boston (Jul 20, 1968)
 
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There lived a shoemaker:
Schumann was his name.
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The British Embassy in Bonn is up in arms. Her Majesty's financially troubled government is seeking admission to Europe's Common Market just as anti-British factions are rising to power in Germany. Rioters are demanding reunification, and the last thing the Crown can afford is a scandal. Then Leo Harting - an embassy nobody - goes missing with a case full of confidential files. London sends Alan Turner to control the damage, but he soon realises that neither side really wants Leo found - alive.

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