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Lädt ... Rendezvous in the Himalayavon Angela Koenig
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Haunted by memories of the disastrous Troubles of Northern Ireland, Jeri O'Donnell has joined her old friend, Rafi Gregoric, who is now a power broker in the new Russia. Rafi's current venture is arranging a meeting between a Tibetan monk and a noted UN official. The monk has evidence of brutal Chinese oppression and, if his information becomes public, perhaps the reforms that swept the Soviet Union can reach China. Guiding the UN official through Himalayan highlands is exactly the kind of work that Jeri se Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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In Rebellion, set in the 1980s, the British suspect Geraldine (“Jeri”) O’Donnell, an Irish-American lesbian Rhodes scholar at Oxford, is a member of the Irish Republican Army. After they wrongfully imprison and mistreat her, she joins the IRA and becomes a valuable asset.
I said this in my review of Rebellion: “I greatly admire Koenig’s portrayal of Jeri as intelligent, physically attractive, South Boston tough—and tragically conflicted. In all her assignments Jeri questions what the IRA leaders ask her to do. She’s especially reluctant to cause death or serious injury to those on either side who are caught up in the violent struggle but are otherwise innocent.”
In Rendezvous, set in the early 1990s, Jeri has fled Northern Ireland. She’s working to deliver a high-ranking Brit, Louise Bolingbrook, to a meeting with a dissident monk in Tibet. Jeri accordingly needs to fight off the British SAS (Special Air Service), which seeks revenge, as well as the Chinese army.
In Nepal she saves the life of Kelly Corcoran, an American tourist mourning the deaths of her gay brother, his lover and their friend due to AIDS.
The story of Jeri and Kelly is the story of this book.
Jeri knows she can’t let herself fall in love with Kelly. Jeri would be taking an innocent person into her world, where she’s “an outlaw, a fugitive, hunted, constantly in peril.”
Jeri attempts to push Kelly out of her life, but Kelly delightfully pushes back. That’s the conflict at the heart of Rendezvous in the Himalaya.
I’ll let Koenig’s writing speak for itself:
“In the beginning Billy was like a rich dessert , nice in small amounts, but when AIDS arrived with all its desolating reality, Billy’s humor became more like rain in a parched and arid land.”
“Power. Who can take and who can hold,” Tashi said, staring into the fire. “Then those people who win tell any story they want about why a land must be theirs.” (