Trapeze
分類: 图书,进口原版,Literature & Fiction(文学与虚构类),Genre Fiction(类型小说),Historical,
品牌: Simon Mawer
基本信息出版社:Other Press (2012年5月1日)平装:384页正文语种:英语ISBN:1590515277条形码:9781590515273商品重量:413 gASIN:1590515277您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介Barely out of school and doing her bit for the British war effort, Marian Sutro has one quality that makes her stand out—she is a native French speaker. It is this that attracts the attention of the SOE, the Special Operations Executive, which trains agents to operate in occupied Europe. Drawn into this strange, secret world at the age of nineteen, she finds herself undergoing commando training, attending a “school for spies,” and ultimately, one autumn night, parachuting into France from an RAF bomber to join the WORDSMITH resistance network.
But there’s more to Marian’s mission than meets the eye of her SOE controllers; her mission has been hijacked by another secret organization that wants her to go to Paris and persuade a friend—a research physicist—to join the Allied war effort. The outcome could affect the whole course of the war.
A fascinating blend of fact and fiction,Trapezeis both an old-fashioned adventure story and a modern exploration of a young woman’s growth into adulthood. There is violence, and there is love. There is death and betrayal, deception and revelation. But above all there is Marian Sutro, an ordinary young woman who, like her real-life counterparts in the SOE, did the most extraordinary things at a time when the ordinary was not enough.作者简介Simon Maweris the author of theNew York Timesbest-selling novelThe Glass Room(Other Press), which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. His previous novelsincludeThe Fall(winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize),The Gospel of Judas,andMendel’s Dwarf(long-listed for the Man Booker Prize). English by birth, he has madeItaly his home for more than thirty years. www.simonmawer.com