Title: The spy game
First published: 2009
Description: An unforgettable, suspenseful novel about childhood, grief and Cold War paranoia On a freezing January morning in 1961, eight-year-old Anna's mother disappears into the fog. That same morning, a spy case breaks in the news. Obsessed by stories of espionage, Anna's brother Peter begins to construct a theory that their mother, a refugee from eastern Germany, was an undercover spy and might even still be alive. As life returns to normal, Anna struggles to sort fact from fantasy. Did her mother have a secret life? And how do you know who a person was once she is dead?
Subjects: Literature, Cold War, Psychological aspects of Cold War, Fiction, Psychological aspects, Adolescence, War, New York Times reviewed, Missing persons, Mother and child, Fiction, psychological, Missing persons, fiction, Mother and child, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, espionage
LC classification: PR6108.A724 S79 2009