From the bestselling author of Istanbul Passage—called a “fast-moving thinking man’s thriller” by The Wall Street Journal—comes a sweeping, atmospheric novel of postwar East Berlin, a city caught between political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation.
Berlin 1948. Almost four years after the war’s end, the city is still in ruins, a physical wasteland and a political symbol about to rupture. In the West, a defiant, blockaded city is barely surviving on airlifted supplies; in the East, the heady early days of political reconstruction are being undermined by the murky compromises of the Cold War. Espionage, like the black market, is a fact of life. Even culture has become a battleground, with German intellectuals being lured back from exile to add credibility to the competing sectors.
Alex Meier, a young Jewish writer, fled the Nazis for America before the war. But the politics of his youth have now put him in the crosshairs of the McCarthy witch-hunts. Faced with deportation and the loss of his family, he makes a desperate bargain with the fledgling CIA: he will earn his way back to America by acting as their agent in his native Berlin. But almost from the start things go fatally wrong. A kidnapping misfires, an East German agent is killed, and Alex finds himself a wanted man. Worse, he discovers his real assignment—to spy on the woman he left behind, the only woman he has ever loved. Changing sides in Berlin is as easy as crossing a sector border. But where do we draw the lines of our moral boundaries? Betrayal? Survival? Murder?
Filled with intrigue, and the moral ambiguity of conflicted loyalties, Joseph Kanon’s new novel is a compelling thriller and a love story that brings a shadowy period of history vividly to life.
约瑟夫•卡农(Joseph Kanon)
爱伦•坡奖得主,著有《德国好人》《伊斯坦布尔逃亡》《不在场证明》《星尘》等作品。其中,《德国好人》被改编为电影,由史蒂文•索德伯格执导,乔治•克鲁尼和凯特•布兰切特主演。1970年从哈佛毕业,在布朗出版社就任编辑;之后的几年,他加入普特南/科沃德•麦坎并成为总编辑。后来,他又跳槽至E.P.Dutton出版社出任总编辑及董事长。在米夫林出版集团度过了他最后的出版职业生涯,在职八年间,他担任集团的执行副总裁及贸易销售部门主管。在出版行业沉浮25余载,于1995年辞职,成为全职作家。
“这是一个发了疯的世界,没有人可以信任。每个人都带着面具,信仰、爱情,甚至人性都成了讽刺。”这是柏林孤谍腰封上的一句话。 作为一部谍战小说,《柏林孤谍》写实地描绘了战后德国的众生相。作者沉着冷静地记述了一个业余双料间谍在执行任务中遇到的最悲痛的感受。战争造...
评分看完这本小说,对于谍战我没有太多感触,反倒是书中对于柏林在1948年这一段时间的党内清洗,社会斗争,以及美苏各国的矛盾分歧这些部分给我更大的震动。 为了理想,为了事业,为了回报祖国,许许多多的流亡海外的德国人在二战结束后选择回到德国。迎接他们的是面目全非的家乡...
评分(928字)美国作者约瑟夫·卡农将亚力克斯的挣扎生生展现给读者,人类社会要混乱到何等地步才会让向往和平安宁的普通人遭受如此的残酷对待,人类的政治要怎样的颠倒众生才会使如同亚力克斯这样求生存的人抛弃所有,只求有个安身之所? 《柏林孤谍》让读者的心随着亚力克斯的人...
评分 评分很遗憾我对二战在其他国家的历史发展完全不了解,在初读这本书的时候很吃力,人名地名都记不住。所以在阅读之前很认真得搜索和整理一遍德国的历史和柏林的历史。在《在绿荫天使的羽翼下:柏林文化之旅》的附录中,找到一份大事件年代表,可以帮助理解书中提到的大事件,...
打开了我对这个类型的兴趣...决定有空补一下John LeCarre和Graham Greene。
评分诶最讨厌外国人的书高潮都在最后1/4。你却不得不读完前3/4.
评分诶最讨厌外国人的书高潮都在最后1/4。你却不得不读完前3/4.
评分自《The Spy Who Came In From The Cold》读过最精彩的间谍小说:文笔、氛围、情节皆具。
评分诶最讨厌外国人的书高潮都在最后1/4。你却不得不读完前3/4.