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"The novel dramatically bares what the accumulation of fact or a high-minded dialectic will never disclose. No serious novelist can do more. To be sure, Le Carré has never quite gotten his due in literary England.... [But] that realm's neglect may ultimately be proof of Le Carré's genius." - Shannon Hamrick 12/14/2000San Francisco Chronicle
"Le Carré is...a thoroughgoing literary artist....He deserves to be considered a major writer....[H]e sits more comfortably in the company of Bellow and Roth and Updike than the Forsyths and Ludlums of the world. THE CONSTANT GARDENER is a worthy addition to his large and consistently impressive oeuvre." - Erik Tarloff 12/31/2005 New York Times Book Review
"THE CONSTANT GARDENER reveals a new and far more Dickensian le Carré....But where in Dickens the desire to improve the real world--to weigh in on the subject of debtor's prisons or child labor in factories--never interfered with creating a supremely inviting fictional world, one senses an impatience in THE CONSTANT GARDENER, as if le Carré were chafing at his eagerness to have us admire his heroine as he does, to get us to believe. Taking sides with the angels, his novel unabashedly wears its heart on its sleeve." - Rand Richards Cooper 01/07/2001 Los Angeles Times
"Because he writes elegantly and because his characters engage us, we do not stop to wonder how well le Carre's discourse holds up. Though sentimentality is hard to resist, hostility to authority is not always a virtue, and the superior righteousness of the oppressed remains, as the Scots say, unproven." - Eugen Weber 01/14/2001 Chicago Tribune
"With THE CONSTANT GARDENER, le Carre proves once more that the themes of deception and betrayal that run through his work need nothing as dramatic as the Cold War for their expression; unbridled capitalism works just as well in exposing the flaws of human morality." - Chris Petrakos 01/14/2001 Houston Chronicle
"THE CONSTANT GARDENER exposes an ugly secret in which, knowingly or not, we are all complicit." 01/04/2001 Times Literary Supplement
"Richly detailed, full of righteous fire to offset its desperate prognosis, THE CONSTANT GARDENER is a very impressive piece of work. It is certainly one of John le Carre's best." - Sean O'Brien 01/15/2001 Guardian (London)
"THE CONSTANT GARDENER's conclusion may be somber, but the book breathes life, anger and excitement until the casual, near brutal realism of its last sentence." - Nigel Williams 12/17/2000 | 
