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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 038541370X
ISBN-13: 9780385413701
May 1990
Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
270 pages
Language: English |
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Synopsis
It's 1955, and Leonard Marnham is a postal employee in postwar Berlin when he is conscripted to do undercover work. Leonard joins a telephone espionage project, the Berlin Tunnel, which monitors calls made from East Berlin to Moscow--an actual operation that was run jointly by the CIA and Britain's MI6. While involved with this project, Leonard has a blissful affair with a beautiful and enigmatic German woman. When her drunken, violent lout of an ex-husband surfaces, their idyll comes to an end, and all the story's strands converge in an episode of violence. An epilogue set more than 30 years later pounds in the last nail.
| Size | | Length: | 270 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 21.6 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Horrifying, mesmerizing...moves with a nightmarish inexorability."
John Gregory Dunne
"A crackerjack novel...Make sure the answering machine's up and running before starting this lulu...You're not likely to brook interruptions."
Chicago Tribune - George V. Higgins
"A gripping, absolutely unique story of love and suspense you won't forget."
Joseph Wambaugh
"In his new novel, the British writer Ian McEwan proves himself to be an acute psychologist of the ordinary mind. He gets our mundane virtues and vices, our craziness and sanities, exactly right, without the distortions of cynicism or sentimentality, so that we see them afresh. Above all, though, Mr. McEwan demonstrates how violence and horror can erupt from what that mind does not know about itself....McEwan's method of working through minute particulars is especially effective in his accounts of the tunneling operation; the technical details are engrossing--and suggestive. The engineers, for example, have to dig through their own cesspit to avoid a graveyard, thus releasing a stench that seems like a metaphor for the whole enterprise....As is often the case in Mr. McEwan's fiction, the source of the horror is male sexuality. A truly scary fight breaks out; there is a ghastly murder, a gruesome aftermath, all laid out in Mr. McEwan's cool, meticulous prose."
New York Times Book Review - George Stade (06/03/1990)
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