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- Title: Le Carre's Fearless Excursion Into the war on Terror (Law and Literature) (Jonathan Yardley on John Le Carre's 'A Most Wanted Man')
- Author : LawNow
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 69 KB
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Jonathan Yardley, in the Washington Post, lambasts John le Carre's new novel, A Most Wanted Man. Yardley is a reviewer whom I generally admire, so I read his review with great interest. Firstly, Yardley is put off by a letter le Carre sent with the advance copies of his novel to booksellers and reviewers. The irritated reviewer condemns le Carre for engaging in a preemptive strike because the letter ends: "I'm pleased with the way this novel turned out." Yardley here makes himself ridiculous as this mild comment is not pre-empting reviewers from going on to consider the novel on its merits. It is not a "considerably inflated "judgment of its literary worth. Yardley goes on to make a series of criticisms, and I'd like to deal with each in turn. The novel treats the war on terror as it unfolds in Hamburg. It centers on the efforts of an idealistic young lawyer, Annabel Richter, and an elderly banker, Tommy Brue, to assist a young Chechen Muslim from Russia who calls himself Issa. Annabel is a human rights lawyer who works for a small firm, Sanctuary North, which specializes in representing refugees and other foreigners in danger. Sanctuary North is described as a charitable Christian Foundation for the protection of stateless and displaced persons in the region of North Germany.