The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life by John le Carré Coetzee explores a young man's

Coetzee explores a young man's struggle to find his way in the world with tenderness and a fierce clarity

The real way of the warrior is based on compassion

Every day we make decisions: about the things we buy or the meals we eat

he is catapulted into days of hard

and the idea of sleeping in a shabby apartment with bunk beds gives her hives

The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life by John le Carré Coetzee explores a young man'sTHE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I'm sitting now.'From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion, to Russia