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The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life: NOW A MAJOR APPLE TV MOTION PICTURE

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John Le Carré

11 Hours 47 Minutes

Penguin Books LTD

September 2016

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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Pigeon Tunnel. Written and read by John le Carré.

'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 Carré has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carré 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 describing the female aid worker who inspired the main character in his The Constant Gardener, le Carré 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 Carré 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 Carré 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 Carré ... they were a journey into the wider world ... These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind' Aung San Suu Kyi

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  • Anonymous

    Brilliant

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  • Kelesi W.

    What a delight to hear this beautifully narrated story of his own life experiences. Compelling and illuminating. Expand your vocabulary and appreciation of the polyglot of the English language! My word: how far we have fallen! It is in the nuance and specific vocabulary of language that we see, hear and feel layers of meaning. Thank you David/M. Le Carre.

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  • Les R.

    It helps hugely that the author read this as I think he’s a superb reader of his own work. One of the most enjoyable and least self aggrandising memoirs I’ve ever read. Never labouring his failings nor blowing his own trumpet. What a life he’s had. Given the opportunity, he’d have been someone I’d have liked to have met.

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  • Anonymous

    Absolutely a must read for all fans of Le Carré. His voice adds to the charm as is his self-depreciating humour. The man has seen the world, experienced political and social changes first hand talking to many who were responsible for those. And to the creation of his vast work … he made me curious to read them all again.

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