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A small town in germany is a 1968 espionage novel by british author john le carre. The one general practitioner in town who migrated there in the 50s has become privy to the darkest secrets revealed to him by some of the towns most prominent citizens. His glorious metropolis is really a small town, filled with men and women from all walks of life whose aspirations, fears, disappointments, and triumphs are interconnected by bonds as unbreakable as they are unseen. London security officer, alan turner, is sent to locate a missing official from the british embassy in bonn. It is set in bonn, the small town of the title, against a background of concern that former nazis were returning to positions of power in west germany. The best small towns and villages in germany quedlinburg. Although much has changed since this book was written in particular the end of the cold war and the reunification of germany this makes a small town in germany a more, rather than less interesting book to read. On july 15, 2014, in a small town, was named a thriller finalist in the 2014 international readers favorite awards contest. German translation of small town the official collins englishgerman dictionary online. A small town in germany book summary and study guide. Borrow ebooks, audiobooks, and videos from thousands of public libraries worldwide. Small town politics, extramarital affairs, berlins future famous gay mayor klaus wowereit, thai prostitutes, east berlin circuses, some unsettling and weird stories from the past theres plenty of dramatic stuff here to wrap a reader up in this case. Tangermunde, duderstadt, rudolstadt, muhlhausen, luneburg, wolfenbuttel, hann.
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