When a mercurial Moscow blonde and a visiting British businessman conduct an affair through their Russian interpreter it reveals all the deceptions of love and East-West relations.
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Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. His novels include Towards the End of the Morning, The Trick of It and A Landing on the Sun. Headlong (1999) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Spies (2002), won the Whitbread Novel Award and Skios (2012) was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His fifteen plays range from Noises Off to Copenhagen and most recently Afterlife. He is married to the writer Claire Tomalin.
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By oldhasbeen
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Format:Kindle Edition
I can't agree with the other reviewers of this book, which I first read over 30 years ago and re-read a while back. For me it's a very enjoyable, sometimes very funny, book with memorable characters who really come to life in the dreary, Kafka-esque setting of Communist Russia. Perhaps some of the humour will be lost on younger readers who don't remember much about the cold war, but highly recommended for fellow old fogies.
11 of 15 people found the following review helpful
By Partisan
Format:Paperback
The premise of this story is good - a love affair between a businessman and a Russian woman who need an interpreter to communicate with each other - as an added ingredient the interpreter is also in love with the woman. There would seem to be endless possibilities romantic, moving and humorous but Frayn's characters are drawn with such a cold dispassionate eye and without any attempt to explore why they do what they do, that by the end of the book I cared for none of them and cared even less what happens to them. It may be "well written" but it is an intellectual exercise with the author moving the characters at his will, often without explanation or reaction and left me feeling uninvolved. Very disappointing.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Perhaps at the time of publication this novel told readers something they didn't know about Russia. 45 years later it's woefully thin on content and character. Frayn's 'Spies' dealt in universal truths whereas his 'possible spies' in this novel are mere ciphers.
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