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Loading... The Foreign Correspondent: A Novel (original 2006; edition 2007)by Alan Furst
Work InformationThe Foreign Correspondent by Alan Furst (Author) (2006)
  
No current Talk conversations about this book.  libreriarofer | Mar 12, 2024 |    ) karatelpek | Oct 11, 2020 | This tale of a small group of anti-Fascist Italian emigrĂ©s, and their efforts to undermine Il DucĂ©âs regime in any way, however trivial, takes us by way of Reuterâs Paris bureau correspondent Carlo Weiszâs day job to the Spanish Civil War; the German invasion of Prague; Berlin at the time of Hitlerâs âPact of Steelâ with Mussolini; and the dangerous back alleyways of dockside Genoa - as the sun sets on the eve of Europeâs nightmare. Weisz is the covert columnist âPalestrinaâ - part of the underground editorial board of the banned âLiberazioneâ newspaper. The day to day travails of his paranoid group of patriots in exile from their home country is a central part of the story. The French secret police arenât much bothered about their Italian counterparts...until they are! The British secret service might scratch your back if you scratch theirs... Nobody can be trusted, and nobody will even know you were ever there... A thoroughly enjoyable and authentic experience of the dark storm clouds of war gathering. (  )1  Polaris- | Nov 16, 2019 | )1 Seafox | Jul 24, 2019 |  ) JBreedlove | Feb 10, 2019 |
...this time around Furst has produced a curiously inert book that is missing both the percussive drive of more commercial spy novels and the fully realized characters of le CarrĂ© and Greene. It is an honest effort â Furst is too good a writer and too professional to offer anything less â and it has its pleasures, but they are served dutifully and without great vigor. No one will ask for a second helping of Carlo Weisz. AwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
Fiction.
Suspense.
Thriller.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:From Alan Furst, whom The New York Times calls â??Americaâ??s preeminent spy novelist,â? comes an epic story of romantic love, love of country, and love of freedomâ??the story of a secret war fought in elegant hotel bars and first-class railway cars, in the mountains of Spain and the backstreets of Berlin. It is an inspiring, thrilling saga of everyday people forced by their heartsâ?? passion to fight in the war against tyranny. By 1938, hundreds of Italian intellectuals, lawyers and journalists, university professors and scientists had escaped Mussoliniâ??s fascist government and taken refuge in Paris. There, amid the struggles of Ă©migrĂ© life, they founded an Italian resistance, with an underground press that smuggled news and encouragement back to Italy. Fighting fascism with typewriters, they produced 512 clandestine newspapers. The Foreign Correspondent is their story. Paris, a winter night in 1938: a murder/suicide at a discreet loversâ?? hotel. But this is no romantic tragedâ??it is the work of the OVRA, Mussoliniâ??s fascist secret police, and is meant to eliminate the editor of Liberazione, a clandestine Ă©migrĂ© newspaper. Carlo Weisz, who has fled from Trieste and secured a job as a foreign correspondent with the Reuters bureau, becomes the new editor. Weisz is, at that moment, in Spain, reporting on the last campaign of the Spanish civil war. But as soon as he returns to Paris, he is pursued by the French SĂ»retĂ©, by agents of the OVRA, and by officers of the British Secret Intelligence Service. In the desperate politics of Europe on the edge of war, a foreign correspondent is a pawn, worth surveillance, or blackmail, or murder. The Foreign Correspondent is the story of Carlo Weisz and a handful of antifascists: the army officer known as â??Colonel Ferrara,â? who fights for a lost cause in Spain; Arturo Salamone, the shrewd leader of a resistance group in Paris; and Christa von Schirren, the woman who becomes the love of Weiszâ??s life, herself involved in a doomed resistance underground in Berlin. The Foreign Correspondent is Alan Furst at his absolute bestâ??taut and powerful, enigmatic and romantic, with sharp, seductive writing that takes the reader through No library descriptions found. |
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Alan Furst
Publicado: 2006 | 228 pĂĄginas
Novela Drama HistĂłrico
A finales del invierno de 1938 cientos de intelectuales italianos huyeron del rĂ©gimen fascista de Mussolini y hallaron un refugio incierto en ParĂs. AllĂ, en medio de las dificultades propias de la vida del emigrado, fundaron varias cĂ©lulas de resistencia que, mediante periĂłdicos clandestinos, enviaban noticias y aliento a Italia. Combatiendo el fascismo con mĂĄquinas de escribir, sacaron a la luz mĂĄs de quinientas publicaciones.