The Mission Song
Author(s): John Le Carre
Bruno Salvador, known to friends and enemies alike as Salvo, is the ever-innocent, twenty-nine-year-old orphaned love-child of a Catholic Irish missionary and a Congolese headman's daughter. Educated first at mission school in the East Congolese province of Kivu, and later at a discreet sanctuary for the secret sons of Rome, Salvo is inspired by his mentor Brother Michael to train as a professional interpreter in the minority African languages of which, almost from birth, he has been an obsessive collector. Soon a rising star in his profession, he is courted by City corporations, hospitals, law courts, the Immigration services and by the all-white, Surrey-born Penelope, star reporter on one of our great national newspapers, whom with typical impulsiveness he promptly marries. Yet even as the story opens, a contrary and irresistible love is dawning in him. First published 2006.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Hodder & Stoughton
- : Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
- : 0.172365
- : 01 July 2007
- : 2.5 Centimeters X 12.8 Centimeters X 19.8 Centimeters
- : Australia
- : books
Special Fields
- : 384
- : Paperback
- : John Le Carre