The Spy Game

 
 
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22 november 2019
EAN
9781408801000

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'If you were a sleeper, how long do you think it would take

before you forgot who you really were? If you were living undercover

for years and years. Which person would be you?'

On a freezing January morning in 1961, eight-year-old Anna's mother

disappears into the fog. A kiss that barely touches Anna's cheek, a

rumble of exhaust and a blurred wave through an icy windscreen, and her

mother is gone. Looking back, Anna will wish that she could have paid

more attention to the facts of that day. The adult world shrouds the

loss in silence, tidies the issue of death away along with the things

that her mother left behind. And her memories will drift and settle

like the fog that covers the car.

That same morning a spy case breaks in the news - the case of the

Krogers, apparently ordinary people who were not who they said they

were; people who had disappeared in one place and reappeared in another

with other identities, leading other lives. Obsessed by stories of the

Cold War, and of the Second World War which is still a fresh and

painful memory for the adults about them, Anna's brother Peter begins

to construct a theory that their mother, a refugee from eastern

Germany, was a spy working undercover and might even still be alive. As

life returns to normal, Anna struggles to sort between fact and

fantasy. Did her mother have a secret life? And how do you know who a

person was once she is dead?

The Spy Game is a beautifully wrought novel about loss,

history, memory and imagination, and the way in which we shape these to

construct our own identities. It is a painful and tender reminder of

the importance of understanding the past and, in turn, the importance

of letting go.

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Artikelnummer
17052206
Online sinds
22 november 2019
EAN
9781408801000

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