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Jonathan Coe

Expo 58

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A comic spy caper and international love story, set in Europe in the middle of the last century, Expo 58 is the latest sublime creation by Jonathan Coe, hailed by Nick Hornby as “probably the best English novelist of his generation.”

Handsome, unassuming Thomas Foley is an employee at the Central Office of Information whose particular biography (Belgian mother, pub-owning father) makes him just the man to oversee the “authentic British pub” that will be erected at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. It’s the first major expo after World War II, meant to signify unity, but there’s inevitable intrigue involving the U.S. and Soviet delegations. In the shadow of an immense, imposingly modern structure called the Atomium, the married Foley becomes both agent and pawn—when he’s not falling head over heels for Anneke, his Belgian hostess.

Funny, fast-paced, and genuinely moving, Expo 58 is both a perfect evocation of a moment in history and the welcome return of one of today’s finest novelists.
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  • yelena zhelezov-tsentsiperciteerde uit2 jaar geleden
    ‘Now hold on a minute,’ said Thomas. ‘What we do at the COI can hardly be described as propaganda.’
    ‘Really? But what else would you call it?’
    ‘Well, as our name suggests, we deal in information.’
    ‘Yes, but it’s not as simple as that. In your publications and your exhibitions, you select certain pieces of information, and reject others. You present them in a certain way. These are political choices. We’re all doing it. That’s why we are all sitting here in Brussels. We’ve come to sell ourselves to the rest of the world.’
  • yelena zhelezov-tsentsiperciteerde uit2 jaar geleden
    that America was a shallow, vulgar, uncivilized place. He understood the allure of the image it was at pains to present to the world – a bold, insistent image, projected in Technicolor and VistaVision – but he was immune to it. Something within him rebelled against the idea of seeing a film which celebrated this way of life, even in the guise (hypocritical, he was sure) of a lurid melodrama which purported to expose its cracks and fault line
  • Olga Shakinaciteerde uit7 jaar geleden
    ‘Mr Chersky had the sachet.’
    ‘He had the sachet and the packet.’
    ‘He had the sachet and the packet in his pocket.’
    ‘He had the sachet and the packet in the pocket of his jacket.’

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