The Resource Tightrope, Simon Mawer
Tightrope, Simon Mawer
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- Summary
- As Allied forces close in on Berlin in spring 1945, a solitary figure emerges from the wreckage that is Germany. It is Marian Sutro, whose existence was last known to her British controllers in autumn 1943 in Paris. One of a handful of surviving agents of the Special Operations Executive, she has withstood arrest, interrogation, incarceration, and the horrors of Ravensbrück concentration camp, but at what cost? Returned to an England she barely knows and a postwar world she doesnt understand, Marian searches for something on which to ground the rest of her life. Family and friends surround her, but she is haunted by her experiences and by the guilt of knowing that her contribution to the war effort helped lead to the monstrosities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. When the mysterious Major Fawley, the man who hijacked her wartime mission to Paris, emerges from the shadows to draw her into the ambiguities and uncertainties of the Cold War, she sees a way to make amends for the past and at the same time to find the identity that has never been hers
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 500 pages
- Note
- First published by Little, Brown UK in 2015
- Isbn
- 9781590517239
- Label
- Tightrope
- Title
- Tightrope
- Statement of responsibility
- Simon Mawer
- Subject
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- trueIntelligence officers
- trueHistorical thrillers
- Intelligence officers -- Great Britain -- Fiction
- trueLondon, England -- History -- 20th century
- trueSpecial operations (Military science)
- Special operations (Military science) -- Great Britain -- Fiction
- trueSpy fiction
- Spy fiction
- trueWomen Holocaust survivors
- trueWomen spies
- trueYoung women
- Young women -- England -- Fiction
- true1950s -- 1950 -- 1959
- trueCold War
- trueDouble agents
- trueGreat Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- trueGuilt in women
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- As Allied forces close in on Berlin in spring 1945, a solitary figure emerges from the wreckage that is Germany. It is Marian Sutro, whose existence was last known to her British controllers in autumn 1943 in Paris. One of a handful of surviving agents of the Special Operations Executive, she has withstood arrest, interrogation, incarceration, and the horrors of Ravensbrück concentration camp, but at what cost? Returned to an England she barely knows and a postwar world she doesnt understand, Marian searches for something on which to ground the rest of her life. Family and friends surround her, but she is haunted by her experiences and by the guilt of knowing that her contribution to the war effort helped lead to the monstrosities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. When the mysterious Major Fawley, the man who hijacked her wartime mission to Paris, emerges from the shadows to draw her into the ambiguities and uncertainties of the Cold War, she sees a way to make amends for the past and at the same time to find the identity that has never been hers
- Summary
- Marian Sutro has survived Ravensbruck and is now back in dreary 1950s London trying to pick up the pieces of her pre-war life. De-briefed by the same shadowy branch of the secret service that sent her to Paris to extract a French atomic scientist, Marian is now plunged into the Cold War.
- Award
- Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, 2016
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10435097
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Mawer, Simon
- Dewey number
- 823/.914
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR9120.9.M38
- LC item number
- T54 2015
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Young women
- Intelligence officers
- Special operations (Military science)
- Great Britain
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Tightrope, Simon Mawer
- Note
- First published by Little, Brown UK in 2015
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- 500 pages
- Isbn
- 9781590517239
- Lccn
- 2015016952
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- 908838470
- (OCoLC)908838470
- Label
- Tightrope, Simon Mawer
- Note
- First published by Little, Brown UK in 2015
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- 500 pages
- Isbn
- 9781590517239
- Lccn
- 2015016952
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- 908838470
- (OCoLC)908838470
Subject
- trueIntelligence officers
- trueHistorical thrillers
- Intelligence officers -- Great Britain -- Fiction
- trueLondon, England -- History -- 20th century
- trueSpecial operations (Military science)
- Special operations (Military science) -- Great Britain -- Fiction
- trueSpy fiction
- Spy fiction
- trueWomen Holocaust survivors
- trueWomen spies
- trueYoung women
- Young women -- England -- Fiction
- true1950s -- 1950 -- 1959
- trueCold War
- trueDouble agents
- trueGreat Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- trueGuilt in women
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
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