Book description
Absolute Friends is a superbly paced novel spanning fifty-six years,
a theatrical masterstroke of tragi-comic writing, and a savage fable
of our times, almost of our hours.
The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, British soldier's son born in
1947 in a shining new independent Pakistan, and Sasha, a refugee son
of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought
sanctuary in the West.
The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the
late Sixties, again in the grimy looking-glass of Cold War espionage
and, most terribly, in today's unipolar world of terror,
counter-terror and the war of lies.
Absolute Friends presents us with magical writing, characters
to delight, and a spellbinding story that enchants even as it
challenges.
