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Absolute Friends

John le Carré

2003383 pagesabout 6–9 hours
2003
first published
  • 2003Little, Brown · 455 pages · ENGISBN 9780316000642
  • 2003Little, Brown and Co. Large Print · 668 pages · ENGISBN 9780316000697
  • 2004Charnwood · ENGISBN 9781843954323
  • 2004Coronet · 383 pages · ENGISBN 9780340832905
  • 2004Hodder & Stoughton · 383 pages · ENGISBN 9780340832875
  • 2004Hodder & Stoughton · 384 pages · ENGISBN 9780340832899
  • 2004Penguin Canada · 456 pages · ENGISBN 9780143016946
  • 2006Sceptre · ENGISBN 9780340923696
NeutralTenseStandard readGeneral Psychology

Ted Mundy, British soldier's son born 1947 in the shining-new Republic of Pakistan, is friends with Sasha, refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor. The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late sixties, again in the grimy looking-glass world of Cold War espionage and in today's world of terror. Originally published.

How it feels

Emotional toneUnflinching

How it reads

PacePage turner
Plot intensityCharacter driven
ComplexityLayered

When and where

ThemesFriendship
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