Spies

• Auteur : Michael Frayn
• • Editeur : Faber and Faber 2002
  • ISBN/ISSN : 0-571-21296-4
  • Format : 234 p.
  • Langues : Anglais
• • Nature du document : fiction Genre : roman
  • Résumé :

    An old man returns to the scene of his seemingly ordinary suburban childhood. Stephen Wheatley is unsure of what he is seeking, but as he walks once-familiar streets he hasn't seen in 50 years, he unfolds a story of childish games colliding cruelly with adult realities. It is wartime and Stephen's friend Keith makes the momentous announcement that his mother is a German spy. The two boys begin to spy on the supposed spy, following her on her trips to the shops and to the post office, and reading her diary...
    

• • Index. décimale : 420 (Langue anglaise)
  • Thème de fiction : apprentissage de la vie/aventure/enfance/guerre et paix/souvenir