The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life
13 hrs. 33 min.
Language
Russian
Author
John le Carré
Author
John le Carré
Narrator
Stepan Starchikov
Narrator
Stepan Starchikov
Description
The New York Times bestseller!
An autobiography of a legend of the detective genre, every bit as thrilling in plot twists as its best thrillers.
“Pigeon Tunnel” isn’t quite a biography—it’s more a story of unusual life situations, strange incidents, and fateful encounters. And all of it with Le Carré’s characteristic humor and attention to detail. The author tells how his characters were created and how the plots of his novels came to be. To make the narration plausible and the heroes psychologically convincing, he often repeats their path, ending up in completely unimaginable situations. Sometimes he dances a New Year’s dance with Yasser Arafat and his military commanders; sometimes, in the middle of the nineties, he asks a criminal authority in a Moscow nightclub whether he’s going to return the stolen money to the people; sometimes he has lunch with Brodsky at the moment they tell him he’s been awarded the Nobel Prize; sometimes he watches “Battleship Potemkin” in the Soviet embassy, hoping they’ll recruit him and make him a double agent. Le Carré’s life is so full of unexpected meetings and fantastic incidents that at some point you completely forget you’re reading memoirs, not an adventure novel.
An autobiography of a legend of the detective genre, every bit as thrilling in plot twists as its best thrillers.
“Pigeon Tunnel” isn’t quite a biography—it’s more a story of unusual life situations, strange incidents, and fateful encounters. And all of it with Le Carré’s characteristic humor and attention to detail. The author tells how his characters were created and how the plots of his novels came to be. To make the narration plausible and the heroes psychologically convincing, he often repeats their path, ending up in completely unimaginable situations. Sometimes he dances a New Year’s dance with Yasser Arafat and his military commanders; sometimes, in the middle of the nineties, he asks a criminal authority in a Moscow nightclub whether he’s going to return the stolen money to the people; sometimes he has lunch with Brodsky at the moment they tell him he’s been awarded the Nobel Prize; sometimes he watches “Battleship Potemkin” in the Soviet embassy, hoping they’ll recruit him and make him a double agent. Le Carré’s life is so full of unexpected meetings and fantastic incidents that at some point you completely forget you’re reading memoirs, not an adventure novel.
02:07
00-00-predislovie
33:07
00-01-vstuplenie
32:07
01-k-svoey-spetssluzhbe-otnosis-po-lyudski
26:38
02-zakony-doktora-globke
06:26
03-ofitsialnyy-vizit
14:48
04-ruka-na-knopke
09:22
05-vsem-zainteresovannym-litsam
04:37
06-zhernova-britanskogo-pravosudiya
16:02
07-perebezhchik-ivan-serov
25:12
08-nasledie
13:34
09-nevinnyy-murat-kurnaz
22:33
10-v-polevyh-usloviyah
09:52
11-kak-ya-stolknulsya-s-dzherri-uesterbi
10:32
12-odinochestvo-vo-ventyane
31:42
13-teatr-zhizni-tantsy-s-arafatom
15:31
14-teatr-zhizni-villa-brigitty
09:25
15-teatr-zhizni-vopros-viny
15:52
16-teatr-zhizni-nezhnosti
30:14
17-sovetskiy-rytsar-gibnet-v-svoih-dospehah
27:15
18-dikiy-vostok-moskva-1993-go
22:59
19-krov-i-sokrovischa
28:14
20-samye-krupnye-medvedi-v-sadke
10:19
21-sredi-ingushey
06:14
22-premiya-iosifu-brodskomu
29:49
23-nekompetentnoe-mnenie
35:58
24-storozh-bratu-svoemu
28:50
25-quel-panama
09:38
26-pod-prikrytiem
31:05
27-ohota-na-voenachalnikov
34:12
28-ya-nuzhen-richardu-byortonu
13:09
29-alek-ginness
29:40
30-propavshie-shedevry
16:17
31-galstuk-bernara-pivo
12:17
32-obed-s-uznikami
37:58
33-syn-ottsa-avtora
36:37
34-syn-ottsa-avtora
31:40
35-syn-ottsa-avtora
03:13
36-redzhi-s-blagodarnostyu
25:59
37-samyy-nuzhnyy-chelovek
02:05
38-kreditka-stivena-spendera
00:34
39-sovet-nachinayuschemu-pisatelyu
09:24
40-poslednyaya-gosudarstvennaya-tayna
