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Cargando... An officer and a spy : a novel (2013 original; edición 2014)por Robert Harris
Información de la obraAn Officer and a Spy por Robert Harris (2013)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I like Robert Harris' books. I like his plain-spoken writing style. I admire his careful research and the way he wears his learning lightly, just casually dropping authentic-sounding details into the narrative, bringing the period in question alive. And so I was looking forward to this book, telling the story of the Dreyfus Affair. This is a pivotal event in recent French history, about which I knew something, and yet I knew nothing. And yet.... it took me almost 300 pages to be drawn into this story. Perhaps Army life didn't grab me. Perhaps this very male world in which Major Picquart moves didn't grab me. But I persisted. And the second 300 pages seized me and forced me to go on page turning. I even woke up at 4.00 a.m. one day and started reading the last 100 pages, not stopping until I'd finally finished the book. This is seriously riveting stuff. And this is an achievement. The way the Dreyfus Affair ended is well-known. But the way that Harris tells the tale of the disintegration of the case, and of the lives that are irrevocably changed as the whole business unravels makes for an electrifying, suspenseful and illuminating read. ( )
What Mr. Harris cannot do, because of this book’s small-bore details and his obvious need to be comprehensive, is offer an overall sense of what other forces contributed to this outcome of the case. The Dreyfus affair prompted an outpouring of angry voices, but Mr. Harris has filtered all that passion through the eyes of one exceptionally dispassionate and distant man, according Picquart the crucial stature of whistle-blower PremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
"Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This is the story of the infamous Dreyfus affair told as a chillingly dark, hard-edged novel of conspiracy and espionage. Paris in 1895. Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, has just been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island, and stripped of his rank in front of a baying crowd of twenty-thousand. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart, the ambitious, intellectual, recently promoted head of the counterespionage agency that "proved" Dreyfus had passed secrets to the Germans. At first, Picquart firmly believes in Dreyfus's guilt. But it is not long after Dreyfus is delivered to his desolate prison that Picquart stumbles on information that leads him to suspect that there is still a spy at large in the French military. As evidence of the most malignant deceit mounts and spirals inexorably toward the uppermost levels of government, Picquart is compelled to question not only the case against Dreyfus but also his most deeply held beliefs about his country, and about himself. Bringing to life the scandal that mesmerized the world at the turn of the twentieth century, Robert Harris tells a tale of uncanny timeliness--a witch hunt, secret tribunals, out-of-control intelligence agencies, the fate of a whistle-blower--richly dramatized with the singular storytelling mastery that has marked all of his internationally best-selling novels"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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