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The Constant Gardener
Author: John le Carre
Book Information
Publisher: Scribner
Book Type: Paperback
Rating: 7

ISBN-13: 9780743287203 - ISBN-10: 0743287207
Publication Date: 8/9/2005
Pages: 496

Book Description:
Now a major motion picture from Fernando Meirelles, the Academy Award-nominated director of City of God



The Constant Gardener is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time. The novel opens in northern Kenya with the gruesome murder of Tessa Quayle--young, beautiful, and dearly beloved to husband Justin. When Justin sets out on a personal odyssey to uncover the mystery of her death, what he finds could make him not only a suspect among his own colleagues, but a target for Tessa's killers as well.



A master chronicler of the betrayals of ordinary people caught in political conflict, John le Carre portrays the dark side of unbridled capitalism as only he can. In The Constant Gardener he tells a compelling, complex story of a man elevated through tragedy as Justin Quayle--amateur gardener, aging widower, and ineffectual bureaucrat--discovers his own natural resources and the extraordinary courage of the woman he barely had time to love.

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Michele S. (queenofeverything) from CARLSBAD, CA wrote on 10/25/2008...


I found the book a lot better and much more interesting than the movie. His wife was fascinating, flawed and I could see why he was so attached to her.

Kathryn G. from SIERRA MADRE, CA wrote on 2/19/2006...


Le Carre does it again.