ISBN: 0140039112
Godina izdanja: 1974
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Graham Greene - The Honorary Consul
Penguin, 1974
265 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro

`As finely controlled and exquisitely melancholy as a Mozart symphony` - Time
In a provincial Argentinian town a group of revolutionaries kidnap by mistake the `Honorary Consul` - Charley Fortnum, sixty-one years old, living on whisky and his disputed status as British consul, married to Clara, a young ex-whore from Señora Sanchez`s brothel.
In a perfectly executed narrative Graham Greene explores the repercussions of the bungled kidnap especially on Dr Eduardo Plarr, whose deficient emotions form the heart of the novel. Plarr is Clara`s lover, but can still envy Fortnum`s love and need for her; and reluctantly he is drawn into the tragi-comedy.
`The tension never relaxes and one reads hungrily from page to page, dreading the moment it will all end` Auberon Waugh in the Evening Standard
`The prose is monkishly spare and taut. The minor characters are brilliantly and sardonically drawn... perhaps the most enduring novel that even he has given us` - Daily Mail
Cover illustration by Paul Hogarth


Fiction, Classics, Thriller, Mystery, 0140039112