Book. Film. "The Constant Gardener".

The constant muse | Books | The Guardian:
"When John le Carré was searching for the inspiration for his new bestseller, The Constant Gardener, he realised his heroine had already been his friend for 20 years. Here, he celebrates the life of Yvette Pierpaoli, a fearless French adventuress whose tragic death the book foretells."

There was a time when, coming out of a novel, I would hit the ground running. And I knew that if I could just keep on running and not be bothered with all that boring editing and publishing nonsense, I could write another book twice as quickly as the last one. I may even have been right. But not this time. This time, I've come out shuffling. I'm like a jailbird after a long stretch: unready for life, resentful of the separation, nostalgic for the chums I'd been locked up with, and longing to get back inside where I was safe. More strangely, I have unfinished business. I have the feeling that I've written someone else's novel.

The novel in question is called The Constant Gardener. It describes a middle-aged British diplomat's search for the killers of his murdered young wife, Tessa. The diplomat's name is Justin, and he is a Foreign Office plodder employed in the British High Commission in Nairobi. The story opens with Tessa's death on the shores of Lake Turkana, in northern Kenya, where she was fatally stabbed and the driver of her jeep decapitated. Her companion and putative lover, an African doctor, apparently fled the scene. The story goes on from there.

...и о любви. The Constant Gardener.

Movie: "The Constant Gardener" (2005)

Фильм "Преданный садовник" (2005)
Джон Ле Карре, рассказ "Преданный садовник"

"I feel safe with you."
- Я чувствую себя в безопасности с тобой.

'You could learn me,'
-Ты будешь познавать меня.

"Leave this Justin. Go home.
Justin- I can't go home. Tessa was my home. "
- Не вмешивайся, Джастин, отправляйся домой.
- Нет у меня дома. Тэсса была моим домом.

The constant muse | Books | The Guardian: Rachel Weisz. Her character, Tessa, was based on real life aid worker Yvette Pierpaoli.
Ms. Pierpaoli was well known in France, partly through her 1992 autobiography, ''Woman of a Thousand Children'' (Robert Laffont, Paris).
She is survived by a daughter, Emanuel, who lives in the New York City area, and a son, Oliver, who lives in Paris.