The Mission Song

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2006
Edition: First Edition

Description: 339 pages. Jacket is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present and mark to cover from an old sticker, but still a presentable copy. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Hailed everywhere as a masterpiece of suspense, John le Carrés return to Africa is the story of Bruno Salvador (aka Salvo), the 25-year-old orphaned love child of an Irish missionary and a Congolese woman. Quickly rising to the top of his profession as an interpreter, Salvo is dispatched by British Intelligence to a top-secret meeting between Western financiers and East Congolese warlords, where he hears things not meant for his ears - and is forced to interpret matters never intended for his reawoken African conscience. By turns thriller, love story, and comic allegory of our times, THE MISSION SONG recounts Salvos heroically naïve journey out of the dark of Western hypocrisy and into the heart of lightness."A ragingly readable adventure tale. . . . Every issue of today is here: class warfare, race, torture, immigration, language. But THE MISSION SONG is also a tender love story, a fast-paced thriller, and a story with as many brilliant minor characters as major. Like another favorite of mine, The Constant Gardener, it gets the centrality of Africa to our world today." -Salon

ISBN: 9780340921968