Word: marnham
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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McEwan's story is set in Berlin in 1955, when the cold war was in full swing. The innocent of the title is Leonard Marnham, 25, a British post-office technician who is drafted into an undercover operation in which the allies are cooperating. And undercover is the accurate word; they are digging a tunnel in the Russian sector to pick up Soviet signals. Leonard loves his work. After living a cramped life in Tottenham, he relishes the rooms "big as meadows" in his government-issue flat and the hip manners of his co-workers. He soon learns that...
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