Un espía privado

John le Carré was one of the greatest novelists of his generation. He also had an extraordinary life. This work is the story of that life told through the voice of this masterful writer. This work spans seven decades and chronicles not only le Carré's own life, but also the turbulent times he witnessed. Beginning with his childhood in the 1940s, it includes accounts of his time at Oxford and Eton. It describes his entry into the British Intelligence Service, the birth of the Iron Curtain and the start of his career as a novelist, while the Berlin Wall is being built. Through his letters we will travel through the Second World War until reaching the current moment. What emerges is a portrait not just of the writer, or the global intellectual, but, in his own words, of the very private, very passionate, very real man behind the name.