Each character is shaded, and mirrors each other character. There is infinite shading that he does with EVERYTHING. It doesn't just do evil, but does many things that are good. Yes, Big Pharma is bad, but not in some monolithic/caricatured way. Many of the MFA literary novels published during the last thirty years will quickly slump and dissolve into the dust of mediocrity, but I am certain this novel (along with many of le Carré's earlier novels: the Perfect Spy, the Karla Trilogy, the Spy Who Came in From the Cold, the Russia House) WILL be read in three hundred+ years. It is amazing how le Carré can write such a masterful novel and such a popular book. The Constant Gardner blew all my assumptions up.
Part of my reluctance was borne of some false assumption that le Carré's masterpieces were mostly weighted towards the front end of his brilliant career. I have been a little reluctant to read le Carré's post-Cold War, post-Smiley novels. Greatest love story of the last fifty years The Constant Gardener is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time. Justin Quayle, amateur gardener and ineffectual bureaucrat, seemingly oblivious to his wife's cause, discovers his own resources and the extraordinary courage of the woman he barely had time to love. His 18th novel is also the profoundly moving story of a man whom tragedy elevates.
Tessa's much older husband, Justin, a career diplomat at the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive.Ī master chronicler of the deceptions and betrayals of ordinary people caught in political conflict, le Carré portrays, in The Constant Gardener, the dark side of unbridled capitalism. Her putative African lover and traveling companion, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has vanished from the scene of the crime. Frightening, heartbreaking, and exquisitely calibrated, this John le Carré's novel opens with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle near northern Kenya's Lake Turkana, the birthplace of mankind.
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