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Ancient Evenings, Norman Mailer ∙ Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Márquez Heartburn, Nora Ephron Ironweed, William Kennedy ∙ The Little Drummer Girl, John le Carré Tzili: The Story of a Life, Aharon Appelfeld
...band's five members are lead singer Regina F. Burch `84, guitarist Alison H. Brown `84, drummer Elainc L. Harris `84, percussionist Eve Sicular `83, and bass player Clea Waite, a junior...
...Little Drummer Girl, Le Carré (1 last week...
...answer turns out to be Le Carré. The Little Drummer Girl (its title an oblique allusion to a Christmas song set in the Holy Land) is both a daring departure from his earlier work and a triumph of narrative control. The long duel between George Smiley of British intelligence and Karla, his opposite number in the Soviet Union, came to an end in Smiley's People (1980), with Karla crossing over from East Berlin into Western arms. Le Carré's emphasis throughout the Smiley sagas was on the abstract detachment of his hero, his intellectual moves...
...Carré suspects that the publication of The Little Drummer Girl may make him a target for other kinds of attacks: "I'm pretty sure that I am going to attract a great deal of flak, particularly in the States, for even suggesting there is anything to put in the Palestinian balance. But I would wish to have it remembered of me, before they claw me apart, that in the nine novels that preceded this book, I think in six of them I wrote with unqualified sympathy about Jews. And if any non-Jew has the right to suggest...