Our kind of traitor - John Le Carré

Criticism:

To start commenting this masterpiece I would like to make it clear that it is exactly that: a masterpiece. Written in a very peculiar and different style, this novel is at the same time like the ones written my  Camila Lackbërg and at the same time very different. It is written in a very original and personal way, rough and brusque but at the same time sensitive. Furthermore, it is the typical book that engages the reader a lot and mantains him interested with its mystery of maximum level, leaving him curious by letting out only the most basic and necessary information little by little, and revealing only the mysteries while the plot advances with impeccable care and timing. This way the reader wants to know what will happen, but not too impatiently because it doesn't happen in the present but rather the author plays with the time and space of the story. This, mixed with the surprising realism of the novel, makes it slow but interesting.

Another curious part about this book and how it is written are its characters. In all the book there are only two characters:

• The dominant one, who talks more and curses a lot, talking in sentences that are short and to the point, skipping words and announcing all the time their minds.
•  The one that follows him, answering that he/she agrees and moreover narrates the story in that moment, which is quite unnusual as in most of the other books the narrator dominates the story.

This book may contain many names and circumstances, but in the book there are only two different personalities and two types of person with no variation; although one only person may sometimes be "the dominant one" and sometimes be "the one that follows him".

This is, anyway a very good book for very patient readers which is very well finished off.

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