The Mission Song: A Novel
by John le Carre
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Author: John le CarreReader: David Oyelowo
Edition: Music CD
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Published: 2006-09-19
ISBN: 1594835667
Publisher: Hachette Audio
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Book Review: Le Carre on raping Africa and calling it charity
Summary: 4 Stars
It took him a few years, but Le Carre has realized that because the Cold War is thoroughly over he should find something else to write about. In the unipolar world he's gone left politically and south geographically, so like The Constant Gardener, which was a little better, this one is about creepy Western capitalists raping Africa and calling it charity. Except that it's about mining instead of drugs, and it's in the eastern DRC instead of Kenya, but yeah, same difference. The new and surprising part is that for I think the first time ever he's completely forsaken his personal tradition of having a middle-aged, run-down male Briton for a protagonist. Instead it's a biracial professional translator with a Congolese mother he never knew and an Irish-French Catholic missionary father. He pulls this off way better than I would have expected. Basically if you like Le Carre, which I almost always do, you'll like this. He's still a great writer, he still pollutes his milieu with shabby little men and that good old feel-bad atmosphere of moral squalor, but now he's intimately furious at Western governments and corporations. What's not to like?
Summary of The Mission Song: A Novel
A naive young interpreter stumbles into the heart of an outrageous British plot in the astonishing new novel by the master of the literary thriller.Abandoned by both his Irish father and Congolese mother, Bruno Salvador (alias Salvo) has long looked for someone to guide his life. Enter Mr. Anderson of British Intelligence. Bruno's African upbringing and fluency in numerous African languages have made him a top interpreter in London, useful to businesses, hospitals, diplomats--and spies. Working for Anderson in a clandestine facility known as the "Chat Room," Salvo translates intercepted phone calls, bugged recordings, and snatched voice mail messages. When Anderson sends him to a mysterious island to interpret a secret conference between Central African warlords, Bruno thinks he is helping Britain bring peace to a bloody corner of the world. But then he begins to hear things not intended for his ears...
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