The Tower of Babel
by Morris L. West
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Spændingsroman om optakten til 6-dages krigen i Mellemøsten i 1967 centreret omkring chefen for Israels militære efterretningsvæsen og hans agent i Syrien og deres roller i det politiske og økonomiske spil.Tags
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1030 The Tower of Babel A Novel, by Morris L. West (read 19 Oct 1969) I don't believe it is great literature, but this book is carefully and capably constructed. Laid in 1966 in the Middle East, it tells the story of a Jewish spy in Damascus. Really well done, it caught me up.
A fiction set within the very real world of late 1960's Israel, Syria, Jordan, Egypt and the dispossessed Palestinians following the establishment of Israel in 1948. Interesting to read after so many decades when you know what followed and how tensions are still very real and present.
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Dramatización de un conflicto: el destino de Israel y la trágica lucha que le enfrenta al mundo árabe.
Un agente secreto israelí, un jefe del contraespionaje, un general de Damasco, un banquero libanes y una pintora judía son los protagonistas, ficticios o no, que marcan con su línea de acción el dramático devenir de un pueblo y las trágicas oscilaciones de su destino.
Jacob Baratz show more (director del servicio de inteligencia militar de Israel), Selim Fathalla/Adom Ronen (dual judío iraquí y espía de Israel), y por último, al Dr. Bitar (médico sirio colaborador del espía judío) son los protagonistas principales. Los tres con el denominador común de su rigor profesional y absoluta entrega a una causa noble: el bien común del colectivo al que pertenecen. Superpuesta por ellos a todo, incluido lo individual y lo privado.
El papel crucial lo tienen los intereses económicos y financieros de muchos que aparentemente no están, ni tan siquiera aparecen implicados en este conflicto entre árabes y judíos. show less
Un agente secreto israelí, un jefe del contraespionaje, un general de Damasco, un banquero libanes y una pintora judía son los protagonistas, ficticios o no, que marcan con su línea de acción el dramático devenir de un pueblo y las trágicas oscilaciones de su destino.
Jacob Baratz show more (director del servicio de inteligencia militar de Israel), Selim Fathalla/Adom Ronen (dual judío iraquí y espía de Israel), y por último, al Dr. Bitar (médico sirio colaborador del espía judío) son los protagonistas principales. Los tres con el denominador común de su rigor profesional y absoluta entrega a una causa noble: el bien común del colectivo al que pertenecen. Superpuesta por ellos a todo, incluido lo individual y lo privado.
El papel crucial lo tienen los intereses económicos y financieros de muchos que aparentemente no están, ni tan siquiera aparecen implicados en este conflicto entre árabes y judíos. show less
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Publisher's Weekly Bestsellers - Part II - 1940 - 1979
355 works; 5 members
Best Sellers / Popular 1968
237 works; 5 members
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61+ Works 7,733 Members
Morris West was born in 1916 in St Kilda, Melbourne. At the age of thirteen, he left home to study with the Christian Brothers Order in Sydney, but left in 1939 after 12 years, before taking his final vows. He was fluent in Italian and French, and taught modern languages and mathematics in New South Wales and Tasmania in his twenties. He spent show more four years code-breaking as a cipher officer in the AIF, and then for a decade he concentrated on producing and writing radio plays. West's first novel was published in 1945 and he began writing full time in the 1950s. He went to Italy were he went undercover with Father Mario Borelli, who was working with street urchins, and wrote The Children of the Sun, published in 1957. In 1959, following six months as Vatican correspondent for The Daily Mail, he published The Devil's Advocate, which won the William Heinemann Award of the Royal Society, the National Brotherhood Award of the National Council of Christians and Jews as well as the James Tait Black Memorial Award. Shoes of a Fisherman, the first of The Papal Series, which included The Clowns of God, Lazarus and Eminence, won the Best-Sellers Paperback of the Year Award in 1965. West helped to found the Australian Society of Authors, was chairman of the National Book Council, chairman of the National Library of Australia and a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. He was made member of the order of Australia (MBE) in 1985 and officer of the order of Australia (AO) in 1997. Apart from writing novels, West also wrote screenplays, radio dramas, plays and was also an artist. Translated into twenty-seven languages, his works have sold more that sixty million copies. He also wrote an account on his spiritual journey, A View From the Ridge, published at the end of 1996. Morris West died while working at his desk on 9th October 1999. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original title
- The Tower of Babel
- Original publication date
- 1968
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- Jordanië
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- The watcher on the hilltop settled himself against the snarled bole of an olive tree, tested his radio, opened his map case on his knees, focused his field glasses and began a slow meticulous survey from the southern tip of t... (show all)he Lake of Tiberias to the spur of Sha'ar Hagolan, where the Yarmuk River turned southwestward to join the Jordan.
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