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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I can't decide if Tessa was an utter fool who committed suicide or an utter fool who was trying to be a hero. I realize that we only see her through the eyes of people who adored her unconditionally, but why were those people so damn blind? She was self-sacrificing to a terrifying fault. ( ) Was a little disappointed with this. The structure of a protagonist, Justin, trying to uncover the investigation that someone had previously performed felt a little forced, and reminiscent of Tinker, Tailor. I somewhat wonder if he preferred this as he seems less comfortable writing women characters, so having a grieving husband as the focus was more in his wheelhouse. On top of that, several of the characters behaviors seem a little contrived, particularly Justin's boss, and one of the main villains, and also Justin's wife at times, unfortunately. Justin is a cipher, that gives the reader the opportunity to survey the whole landscape of pharmaceutical companies, based in Switzerland and running effectively nonconsensual human trials in Africa with the support of corrupt regimes and bland acquiescence of Western regimes, in thrall to multinationals and rich donors. The scope of the story is as huge as it is chilling, blasted by Le Carré's ice-cold fury. But the plot mechanics are a little clunky compared to his normal extremely high standards. This book is in the category A Book You Own But Have Never Read for good reason. The Constant Gardener is the jerky, dissatisfying story of a British diplomat's wife, murdered by a nefarious pharmaceuticals company for raising concerns about the safety of a drug being administered in Africa as a cure for tuberculosis. Ignoring the triteness of this plotline, my major observation is that the novel reads as though written in two sections—the first consisting primarily of dialogue, the second mostly narrative—then mashed together. Or as though the first half was written and set aside, and the novel finished later without a visit to the earlier portion. Add in that much of the story is highly improbable, with only superficial attention paid to its verisimilitude: the diplomat's ability to travel the globe on a single fake passport, searching for his wife's killers while being trailed by sinister agents of the pharmaceutical company with death always averted by seeming inches—except for the times he travels on his own passport undetected by a British government also bent on stopping him. As a bonus, there is an unexplained computer virus that wipes the hard drives of all those who corresponded with the dead woman. There are so many flaws in this novel, too many to list or overcome. Le Carré has written more engaging books that don't read as if he weren't invested enough to research his work and provide detail to make its events believable.
Im Nachwort seines 18. Romans schreibt John le Carré: "Je tiefer ich in den pharmazeutischen Dschungel eindrang, desto klarer wurde mir, dass mein Roman, verglichen mit der Wirklichkeit, ungefähr so harmlos ist wie eine Urlaubspostkarte." Was so nicht stimmt, denn der Roman ist weder harmlos noch sollte man ihn an der Realität messen. John le Carré hat eine blutige Variante der Verstrickung von Politik und Wirtschaft in Szene gesetzt, von der wir inständig hoffen, dass sie niemals Realität wird. Schon die Vorstellung solcher Zusammenhänge, wie sie John le Carré in seinem Roman aufgezeigt hat, flößt Angst ein und sensibilisiert das Unrechtsbewusstsein des Lesers. Eine positive Nebenwirkung! Aus diesem Grund und für einige spannende Lektürestunden sollte man dem Autor dankbar sein. Pertence à Série da EditoraList Taschenbuch (60586)
Frightening, heartbreaking, and exquisitely calibrated, John le Carre's new novel opens with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle near northern Kenya's Lake Turkana, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover and traveling companion, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has vanished from the scene of the crime. Tessa's much older husband, Justin, a career diplomat at the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive. A master chronicler of the deceptions and betrayals of ordinary people caught in political conflict, le Carre portrays, in The Constant Gardener, the dark side of unbridled capitalism. His eighteenth novel is also the profoundly moving story of a man whom tragedy elevates. Justin Quayle, amateur gardener and ineffectual bureaucrat, seemingly oblivious to his wife's cause, discovers his own resources and the extraordinary courage of the woman he barely had time to love. The Constant Gardener is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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